Character Ball - Stick the Landing
This is an exercise submission on the exercise Character Ball
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Exercises are a great way to test what you've learned given certain restraints, while getting feedback from your peers. Plus, they're a lot of fun!
My submission for this exercise. I did not use squash & stretch for the final landing, because I wanted to really stick that landing lol. Really fun exercise, can't wait to start animating real characters!
Rules of the Exercise
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1Animation is appealing and makes the ball act like a living, breathing character rather than just a ball.
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2Submission is in video format.
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3Uses the .blend file provided.
Hehe good work Chad.
I do like the landing.
Here;s a couple notes to push your skills further.
-f11-f16, because he is about to jump to the right you can arc to the left before this squash to anticipate the main movement.
-f20,. show the stretch touching the ground. This will show the character pushing off the ground. Also make sure the spacing gap near the ground is the biggest.
-f29, show the stretched landing and lean it towards the path of action.
-93, keep the stretch in ling with the path of action and make sure you don't slow into the stretch here. The top of the ball should be accelerating but f92-93 the top is slowing down.
Also check for this same spacing error in other places like all the jumps on the platform.
-f103. Stretch the landing.
Hope that helps.