How a Bowling Alley Works

Here is an animation I did that shows how a bowling alley works. This particular design is taken mostly from Brunswick's pinsetter. The ball return is taken from AMF's Gripper ball lift. Please note that I wasn't going for an exact representation of a particular type of bowling alley. This was just to demonstrate the basic understanding of how it all works. I created the geometry in 3ds max and the animation was done in Cinema 4D. I then used After Effects to compile everything and to add sound effects etc.

Logo & Scorecard Design by Jordan Miller
Special Thanks to 3DKiwi

Please visit my website for more 3D work:
http://www.mattrittman.com/

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Category:

Film & Animation

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• bowling
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• pin
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• gutter
• lane
• distributor
• amf
• brunswick
• pit
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• animation
• 3ds
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• a-2
• gripper

[Abaft6]

omg this so weird. when the guy said the computer crashed my shockwave plug in crashed. no joke

[rittboy8u]

@Abaft6 Haha that's awesome :) Gotta love Windows!

[JeremyB787]

Fantastic work! Thanks for uploading!

[rittboy8u]

@JeremyB787 Thank you!

[nadamejorquehacerTV]

is that the music from mafia 1

[rittboy8u]

@nadamejorquehacerTV Yep!

[pwkn0]

The computer crashed because the have Windows. lol

[andyjv2000]

You have a lot of things wrong with this. The infrared sensor is after the rake. If it was in front of the rake, a slow moving ball would hit the rake because it doesn't know how fast the ball is moving. You also forgot to add that the curtain in back of the pin deck releases the rake just in case the laser doesn't. Also, the camera is just for scoring purposes. The scissors in the pin setter will contract whether there are pins there or not. Then it can tell whether or not it needs to re-rack.

[rittboy8u]

@dkar2006 Haha heck yeah! :)

[dkar2006]

lol windows xp. i would've lost it if it was windows ME.

[jrpacman21]

if a pinsetter was that slow, I would pay only half of what the price is