Character Ball - exercise 09

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    Łukasz Lebiecki (lebiecki)

    thank you for the tips, great
    I'm getting to work and the next exercise
    thanks again

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    Wayne Dixon (waylow)

    Hi Łukasz. Welcome back.

    Here's a couple notes to help push your skills further.
    I will mention a few spots but then you can look at all the places where you have the same issues.

    -When you are stretching while on the ground, track the spacing on the top of the ball. This should accelerate or decelerate accordingly but at the moment you have quite a few places where it goes super slow and then pops big when it's in the air.
    eg- f14-16, can you see how the spacing on the top of the ball slows down and then pops bigger on f17. And then on f22-23 the top of the ball instantly slows down creating a pause in the momentum. (have a look at all the other places where the ball is doing the same thing.
    -f143, the ball just starts to hover while squashed. Try showing how it pushes off the ground by stretching first.
    -The arc from f323-336 is too rounded (and it falls too slow)

    Hopefully those notes will help you improve.

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Łukasz Lebiecki (lebiecki)

I come back to animation after a break of almost a year and this is my first exercise after such a long time, I hope that such breaks will not happen any more because I want to approach the animation professionally, I am waiting for tips on how to improve my skills and develop.
See you in the next exercise

Rules of the Exercise

  • 1
    Animation is appealing and makes the ball act like a living, breathing character rather than just a ball.
  • 2
    Submission is in video format.
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    Uses the .blend file provided.