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[smurfmier1985]

@yukinoh1989 Hi, as promised here is the feedback on your exercises.

  

Squash & Stretch

Wayne’s feedback on your exercise is spot on (as always), I have nothing to add really. What might help you out, I’ll give you the link to my third version of the vertical S&S exercise, which finally was good enough, according to Wayne haha. Perhaps going frame by frame studying it will help you improve your own version.

Vanilla Ball Drops

The first drop is looking much better, good job! Good speed and they are falling at the same rate. Good improvement. Bowling ball still looking good. You still have the issue with the soccer ball and basketball that the last bounces are a bit too snappy, like a magnet pulling it to the ground. It looks a bit jittery. Check thoses curves to see if they’re nice parabolas (zoom in close). With the soccer ball it’s the 4th – 6th bounce. With the basketball it’s the 6th – 8th bounce. The last bounces are the ‘feeling’ bounces you create with the handles, those probably look good but check to be sure. Even whe you create t with the handles it should be parabola like.

Obstacle Drop

Much better! This exercise wasn’t my best, still find this physics kind of thing pretty hard, but I’ll try to give you some useful feedback. 

– The spacing on the ramps look good. I do feel the first ramp is a bit slow thoug, maybe delete a couple of frames to gain speed a bit faster.

– When it comes of the platforms the last two spacing gaps are quite even, I feel it should speed up at least a little before hitting the ground.

– First bounce when it lands on the second platform looks good. The second one is a bit to big, make that a small bounce. It will lose force / momentum after the first bounce. Make the speed up after the second bounce a tinyyy bit slower at the start (add a couple of frames), ’cause feels like it’s starts rolling fast too soon. 

– The height differences between the first and second bounce on the ground isn’t big enough imo, it should reduce a bit more height with each bounce (about 2/3). Try makingthe first one bigger, and maybe then also a bit wider (since it’s going pretty fast it can travel farther).

But good job, this is a huge improvement over the first version. Good luck and have fun with aplying the feedback and adding the rotations. Looking forward to the finished version!

Anticipation

I saw Wayne has already giving you great feedback, so you’ve got all you need to improve this one 🙂

  

  

Good work Yukino. I hope this is all useful to you. Happy animating!