Bouncing Ball Test, Animation

The infernal bouncing ball test. Tried moving a camera view here, which proved a bit tricky, but doable.

91 frames, 12 sec, so I am still at 8 fps. Crappy WMM. I am going to try to trick it into 16 fps. That should be enough for smooth motion.

*EDIT* I made a better bouncing ball with better moving camera, look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0P_Ne7eOms

This animation was made using Pencil (Open Source software):
http://www.pencil-animation.org/index.php?id=Download
and Windows Movie Maker.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• pencil
• animation
• test
• 2d animation
• traditional animation
• Open Source
• Open Source software
• madlodger
• learning
• motion
• cartoon
• bouncing ball

[madlodger]

Thank you for the concrit!

Yep, the background was drawn very fast and not thought through. At that point I was trying to get the actual motion of the ball right. It would of been turned into a moss-covered boulder surrounded by fog if developed any farther.

The face on the ball represents endless optimism at me beating this animation program, hehe.

What would you have expected from the ball if the face wasn't there?

It's a serious question because now I have one yay and one nay for the face

[azziplxx]

Now, to be honest, it's very rough on every end.

Also, I can see that you did not pay attention to basic color theory (color perpective in your case was the most obvious, that blue-greenish wall for me looks far behind the ground, the ball is bouncing off).

The good thing is, that to it is still interesting and there is some hint of character to the ball.

It's a pity that you put on that face at the end which does simply not reflect what I expected from that ball.

[madlodger]

Yep, couldn't resist adding that :)

[Waxonator]

lol @ the end