Monday, 21 January 2013

21/01/13 - "Football! YEAH"

In today's session we created an animation for a football. Our lesson started with a demonstration of how to change the view-port to a setup more suitable for our needs:


From the standard 4 view-ports we have gone to this two view-port setup which includes a perspective view and the graph editor, which lets you view all your animation keyframes and even manipulate them, allowing you to make adjustments to an animation without having to enter the 3D workspace.

The animation we made was simply a ball flying into view and bouncing on the floor. We learnt about adjusting the animation curves for objects, given that animations tend to be created with an 'ease-in, ease-out' curve which was unsuitable in this instance. The football needed to both enter the scene at a constant speed, as well as maintaining its speed when it bounced, for this we had to use a linear curve, meaning it was constant.


This animation demonstrates one of the principles mentioned in the previous post: Bounce and Stretch.

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