Animation Fundamentals: Animating a Ball Bounce
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this animation fundamentals tutorial, we'll learn about timing and spacing. These principles are some of the most important principles for any animation. Software required: Maya 2016.
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Course Description
In this animation fundamentals tutorial, we'll learn about timing and spacing. These principles are some of the most important principles for any animation. We'll start out this course by learning why timing is crucial for making your animation appear believable. We'll also learn how it's used to embody a character with more personality, a thought process and emotion. Then we'll dive into spacing and learning how important it is for making your animations realistic and appealing. We'll take what we've learned and apply it to one of the most vital animation exercises: the bouncing ball animation. While a bouncing ball may seem simple, there's a lot of important techniques and principles to learn from this exercise. Although we'll be using Maya in this course, you'll be able to transfer the information to your preferred 3D program. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid understanding of principles and techniques used to create great 2D and 3D animations. Software required: Maya 2016.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 22s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 22sAnimation Fundamentals: Animating a Ball Bounce- 1h 20m
—Understanding Timing 9m 3s
—Understanding Spacing 8m 57s
—Understanding Timing and Spacing Further 8m 17s
—Looking at a Bouncing Ball in the Real-world 4m 20s
—Setting up Our Scene for Animation 6m 34s
—Beginning the Ball Bounce Animation 9m 6s
—Finishing the Initial Bounces of the Ball 8m 39s
—Adjusting the Spacing of the Bounces 7m 48s
—Creating the Side to Side Movement of the Ball 6m 26s
—Adding Rotation to the Ball 7m 53s
—Finishing the Animation 3m 47s