Ball Bounce Excercise 2

This is a slightly edited version of the first ball bounce, I edited the f curve on this one which made it bounce differently, however it needs a lot more done to it.

Ball Bounce with wall

We were given a task to time the bounce of a ball next to the wall, the ball had to bounce as if it was trying to see something on the other side of the wall and then back down. We had to include the squash and stretch technique. Once I had made the wall and the floor and the sphere I animated it using the keyframes and let the computer do the inbetweens. Once the animation was done I used the F curve editor and the dope sheet to edit the movement of the ball.

Below is the finished capture of the animated ball bounce.

Croquet Slide

The next excercise consisted of us animating the ball rolling down a slide and going through the hoops and into a box, The ball seems to stop slightly as the reaches the bottom of the slide and then suddenly a burst of speed takes it across and through some of the hoops, a little more work is needed on this.

I tried to make the ball bounce off of the corners of some of the hoops and the curve round to go through another hoop this is the view of the ball going through the hoops.

Croquet Excercise

We then applied the same idea to something else with a ball, however we now had to time the movement of the ball with the swing of a hammer, this meant we had to animate the hammer and the ball. I tried to make the hoops move as the ball went through them, they don't move amazingly but its good practice.

Ball Roll Animation

This is one of the first excercises during the lessons on Autodesk Softimage, We learnt how to keyframe the rotation and the movement of the objects and therefore created a short animation for a ball rolling.

Autodesk SoftImage practice- Mr Potato Head Comic strip

This is the first time I have used Autodesk SoftImage, I learnt the basics of moving, rotating and resizing shapes. We were set a task to design a comic strip to show we could move the different shapes, We had to design Mr and Mrs Potato head in order for us to show we could move the shapes. As the image shows I have successfully made a comic strip by moving the shapes to pose the characters in different shots.