Project 3 Bouncy Ball
Project 3 Bouncy Ball
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Thursday, October 16 2025
Description
A ball meets a box who wants to bounce. The ball teaches the box the right technique and the box bounces high into the air! Other shapes become inspired and bounce along with the ball and box.
Storyboards
Animation
Principles of Animation Used
Squash and Stretch
Squash and Stretch
Used in the objects' bounces to convey elasticity. Lack of squash and stretch conveys rigidity, as shown with the box in the beginning.
Exaggeration
Exaggeration
The ball's realization of the box seems to suspend the ball in mid-air as it twists around in an exaggerated motion. It pulls itself down and skids to a stop.
Follow Through and Overlapping Action
Follow Through and Overlapping Action
At first, the box cannot bounce, but the energy generated by its squash propels it forward slightly. The follow-through action is the box's top face tipping over after the box has already stopped.
Anticipation
Anticipation
When the box is just about to bounce into the air, it slowly squashes down low, implying that it is building up energy.
Project Notes
I used the squash, bend, and twist deformers to manipulate the shape of the objects, and the objects' Translate nodes to move them in the scene.
I made the animation video file using Playblast and edited it in Adobe Premiere Pro (trimming part of the video and adding a fade-out transition at the end).
The camera shots and cuts were done in Maya by creating and animating a camera.
Websites Consulted
Animating a camera in Maya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0OqE3ZYamo
Cutting clips in Adobe Premiere Pro:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/edit-projects/trim-clips/cut-clips.html
Transitioning with fade in Adobe Premiere Pro:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/video/post-production/transitions/fade-in-out.html
Works Consulted
Derakhshani, Dariush. Introducing Autodesk Maya. 1st ed. CRC Press, 2024.
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