Bouncing Ball Animation Practice
Animating a ‘bouncing ball’ is a classic animation exercise.
It is a practice in two animation principles:
Exaggeration and Squash/Stretch.
We will exaggerate the bouncing and the squashing/stretching to make the ball come alive!
In real life, a ball bounces in a parabola shape, but does not really stretch or squash.
We add the squash and stretch to give the animation more energy, excitement and life.
We will change the FRAME RATE to 12 to make the animation easier to draw
Real life bounce:
https://youtu.be/k-YWxMTZtgk
We will use Photoshop
New Film&Video > HDV 720P
We will use the template below to help guide our animation.
Draw a new drawing for each frame and follow the methods we have learned prior.
Save as PSD for your records.
Upload the finished file as a GIF
