Ahhh, you’re starting to see problems and solve problems. Good. That’s a lot of what animation is.
This is one of the situations where you have to “cheat it”. Which we can do in animation. First base it on reality, (or a tweaked version of reality) and then cheat things to make it look “better than real life”.
So to solve this issue you need to decide what the best thing to do is.
Do you cheat the bowling ball or do you cheat the middle ball?
That depends on the situation. You can adjust the positions and/or the height to lessen any cheating but ultimately you will need to play around with a few of the solutions you have mentioned and then decide which one works best.
Are you starting to day dream about animation yet? (My guess is yes! Welcome to the club haha)
