In every animator’s early test reel there is - the Bouncing Ball!
Show us your balls! Extra points for amusing or technically challenging ball motions.
In every animator’s early test reel there is - the Bouncing Ball!
Show us your balls! Extra points for amusing or technically challenging ball motions.
I’m gonna try something crazy: a bouncing beach ball. Freely rotatable on any axis (ie. 3D looking).
But I’m gonna cheat a bit . I’ll be using the program I’m making to test the vector objects idea. It’s the perfect opportunity to test the concept.
It will be 100% vector graphics though. I’ll probably make my program output a SIF with a lot of waypoints.
Well, now that I said it out loud, I can’t turn back.
Yoyobuae going for the extra points in a big way! Looking forward to seeing it!
Yeah! I have a good idea ,too. I won’t make it 3d-looking. (Synfig is 2D so 2D is pretty good enough.) I hope, i will be able to do it all in synfig. It will have a sliding background with png. Some animated objects as vectors (birds) and a ball as vectors. I won’t give too much details, because i want it to be fresh and new to you. I am already on the edge, with what idea you will come up, this time.
Here I go:
Bounce is made with waypoints. Shadow and effects are calculated.
-G
bounceball.sifz (13.4 KB)
Cool! Looks very alive! Simple, but impressive.
So… I decided to do rotating 3d-esque ball. No bouncing yet, only rolling, but the optical illusion seems to work.
Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=gysjbhTWEk8
Synfig File attached.
ball-test6.sifz (1.76 KB)
Oh! nice! and smart! Never thought on that kind of effect!
-G
Nice 3d ball rolling effect. What I’m trying is something very similar, but at the same time so very different.
Nice one. You might want to fix your ‘syfig’ tag to ‘synfig’
Yeah Nikitakit 3d-like ball is awesome! Nice idea.
Here’s my little contribution, a boucing ball crossing the screen made as a transition sequence…
blueball.sifz (7.2 KB)
BlueBall01.zip (459 KB)
I was not able to see the video in the computer I’m using now, so I uploaded it to yourtube to watch it. It is nicely done!
I hope you don’t mind I uploaded the video to youtube. I you want I can delete it and you make your own.
youtube.com/watch?v=y82qvX1eLJI
-G
Yop Genete no problem for you post it on youtube, please just add a description line under it sayin’ “made by Satrip (Timothée Giet)” or something like that, and I’ll be happy ^^ …
Personnaly I don’t post on Youtube anymore, but as this file is made for sharing and for the fun there’s no problemo
Done!
Excellent entries everyone. Not sure which one I prefer.
[size=50](Well, everyone except me, my bouncing ball looks totaly pathetic. So much I’m not sure i’ll post it I may try to redo it later, but well, really, it’s bad. My animation is as fluid as gravels pickled in cold tar.)[/size]
BEFORE PIXELGEEK MWAHAHAHA!
(cough cough sorry… )
Ok, I improved a little bit my animation, and added several balls, so it’s harder to see what’s happening and see the flaws
(sifz to follow)
My minimalist entry: youtube.com/watch?v=x_NWwJs8CLw
Don’t even start me about everything that’s wrong with it…
G.
OK - well past the deadline, and I’m going to admit defeat on this one. Have a mildly wobbling ball…