The balls currently move very fast, im talking about within the 200 frames the animation is done, and the balls dont really 'bounce' really just fall straight down the stairs. I have since created a simple scene with stairs and two balls, I managed to get the balls to interact with the stairs but at the moment it's not very accurate movement. I built up the scene using passive bodys and then created a few active bodies for the balls, pressing play then didn't do anything. I only needed 3 main poses because Maya used interpolation to fill in the movement between key frames.Īfter completing the basic bounce, I added squash and stretch to make it more realistic and give the ball some character.For a University project I am compositing bouncing balls into a scene after trying and failing with Maya's Rigid body system I was directed from another forum to this plugin and website.

I used 3 main key frames, each 10 frames apart, to complete one bounce : contact – highest point – contact, following the general idea of height decrease that I drew in my plan. This is helpful for when you want to organise exactly what you are animating about the polygon as you go along. For instance, the shortcut for scale is ‘R’ and so, to create a scale specific key frame, the shortcut would be ‘shift + R’. If you wanted to create a key frame where only one of those transformations could be changed, you would use the shortcut ‘shift + the shortcut key for the tool within the Maya software’.

The shortcut ‘S’ creates a key frame in which translation, scale and rotation can be edited. Keyframes appear on the timeline at the bottom of the page as a red line. Then, after doing a rough sketch of the key poses that the ball would be using, I prepared the scene by changing the workspace mode to animation in the drop down.įirst, you set the position of the ball before adding in a key frame in the timeline with the shortcut ‘S’. To make this, we were first provided with the scene containing the environment and the ball. Inanimate Object Animation change: Eraser.Task 2: Sound Creation Resource List & Recording Schedule.Photoshop: Destructive & Non-Destructive Editing.Photoshop: Adjustment Layers in Practice.

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