Arcing Ball Bounce

This Exercise is attached to: Animation Bootcamp

Chapter 1: Developing Your Eye
Learning to animate is learning to see.
Chapter 2: Everything is a Bouncing Ball
Complex animation is a collection of its simple animations. And those simple animations can almost always be analyzed as bouncing balls.
Chapter 3: More Ball Animation Goodness
Not so fast - I'm not done teaching you everything there is learn from bouncing balls!
Chapter 4: Let's not forget Squash & Stretch
This is the last chapter focusing on ball animation. Who knew there was so much to learn from balls?
Chapter 5: Into the Character Realm
We're diving into characters at this point. In this chapter, we cover one more animation principle and introduce you to the VonnBots!
Chapter 6: Can you walk the walk?
Summon all your animation skills to create believable and appealing walk cycles for the Stomp and Rivet VonnBots.
Chapter 7: In Closing
Congrats on finishing the course! If you're wondering where to go from here, this video from Wayne answers that question.
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Software: Blender 2.78
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A bounce that moves in two directions - You're mad!

OVERVIEW

This exercise is designed to be an application of the information learned in Chapter 2 of the Animation Bootcamp course. The assignment is to animate a slightly more complex ball bounce - "slightly more complex" meaning there's still no squash or stretch and the motion incorporates another axis: Z-axis (up and down) AND X-axis (left and right). This application will hone your ability to blend the f-curves of 2 axes together for a smooth, believable arcing bounce animation.

INSTRUCTIONS

Download the Arcing Ball Bounce: Source Files from the Downloads tab. Unzip and open the included .blend file with Blender.
Key your key-poses and manipulate their f-curves to achieve an arcing ball bounce from left to right.
Render your animation as an openGL viewport render - You can choose to render motion paths or not.
Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo.
Finally, submit your exercise by clicking the Submit Exercise button in the top-right corner of this page and pasting your video's URL.

Rules of the Exercise

1

Animation is believable as an arcing ball bounce.
2

Submission is in video format.
3

Use the scene file provided. You can choose to render motion paths or not.

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Keep geting Keing set failed to insert any keyframes

1 answer · asked July 26, 2017 12:08pm

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juanlg
1 answer · asked July 26, 2017 12:08pm

Keep geting Keing set failed to insert any keyframes

I tried several times using the provided file, then i tried following the video, still always get the same message after seting the 2 initial keyframes. Why? Thx

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w Wayne Dixon

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Since 2009, I have been producing high quality character animations for everything from commercials to children's music videos. Working remotely for several small studios, I have been responsible for the rigging and animation of several videos that have received over 100 million views on Youtube. (Making for some very happy clients.) Specialising in Blender with a high competency in Maya. I have successfully completed the feature animation and lighting workshops at iAnimate and and currently learning how to rig in Maya as well as I can in Blender. I also enjoy scripting in python and learning new skills.