the bouncing ball tutorial

I tried out a screen capture app I found and made this little tutorial on how to animate the bouncing ball in "Pencil" - http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/

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• animation
• bouncing
• ball
• tutorial
• studsande
• boll
• guide
• pencil
• how
• to

[jaspehh]

Hi there is there any shortcut keys for creating a new keyframe? I couldnt find any reference in the user manual :c

[apelsinchoklad]

@jaspehh return key, if you haven't figured it out already ^^

[RivenJenara]

Hey, It's me again. What is that background thing you got up to measure the speed and distance etc.? thanks!

[apelsinchoklad]

You mean the line I drew?

As it says in the video a bouncing ball increase/decrease in speed while bouncing - that means the slower it gets, more pictures is needed.

Another approach that is used most often is to draw some key positions(keyframes) and add pictures in between (inbetweens).

That way you can easily get a feeling of what the animation will look like and change the "gap" between the keyframes to adjust the speed before drawing all the inbetweens...

[apelsinchoklad]

.. (In most cases..) much better than drawing every single frame from start to end in sequential order, not knowing what it will look like until it's finished.

idleworm [dot] com/how/anm/01b/bball.shtml

awn [dot] com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/l­esson.htm

animationarena [dot] com/principles-of-animation.ht­ml

animationmeat [dot] com

animationforum [dot] net

[lightsdarks300]

How do you keep the balls path on the screen? Mines just keeps disapearing

[apelsinchoklad]

Click on the little circles next to the layer icon or the circle above the layers.

[rayisyourlover]

dude thank you so much for this. just watching someone else do it helped a lot

[Nightraven117]

how do i export it? im having trouble with getting it on wmm

halp?

[BlissfulGold]

This is amazing!

I've been really wanting to try animating for some time now, so I appreciate the video.

But I have a question: What is that grid picture you dropped into Pencil at 0:24 ?

Where can I find it?

Thanks so much.

^.^

[mjthings]

@RunningStream111 That's odd. While Quicktime export doesn't work on Windows, image sequence export does work for me. It also works under Ubuntu Linux.

[MUTANTxEWOK]

Thanks awesome man. I've wanted to make a little animation like this and now I can!

[dwarfmenproductions]

what is the screen recording software you are using?

[DKC1011]

this type of animation was around long before claymation.

[MULTIUNKNOWNPERSON]

thats just stupid clamation! (frame to frame to frame etc.)