Reply To: polybook yukino1989

[smurfmier1985]

@yukinoh1989 

Hi Yukino, back from seeing Pepper create yellow snow :-p

First wanna say good job so far! You’ve made a really difficult version of this exercise with so many balls, and there’s a lot of good stuff in there. Just a bit of polishing before you add rotations, but the base is strong.

Here are my notes for you,

First drop / rolling on platforms:

All balls seem to have pretty even spacing when dropping and rolling (as far as I can judge without motion paths, which would be a spaghetti mess in this exercise so I’m glad you didn’t turn them on lol). Remember, when it drops it’s like the vanilla bounce, tight spacing on top and the spacing gaps getting bigger and bigger, with a pretty big spacing gap before it hits the ground. With the rolling balls it should also get bigger as it starts to roll faster down the ramp, only the build up goes a lot slower then when it falls, more subtle.

Basketball:

– When it falls on the second ramp the bounces can be a bit bigger, it’s quite a bouncy ball.

– It starts rolling fast too soon after that, make it start a bit slower and build up speed.

– Bounces on the ground look good 🙂

Bowling ball:

– The drop on the secon platform, the height is good. I do think it goes to far to the right (up the platform). Try reducing that traveling space by 50%

– When it hits the beach ball, it’s good you change the drection but I think in this case it’s too much. The bowling bal is really heavy, while the beach ball is super light. Changing the direction empasized the interaction with the beah ball, but in this case it should be a really subtle small change of direction.

– Bouncing on the ground looks good 🙂

Soccer Ball:

– Bounces after first drop look good 🙂

– After that is shoots of like a rocket! That’s pretty cool but more for a cartoon animation 😉 It now looks like it speeds up on the horzintal part. But it should be more like this: when it rolls of the platform it should build up speed thanks to gravity, when it goes horizontal it slowly loses momentum, as wel as going up a platform. The distance is short here so it won’t lose much momentum.

– After the rocket shot all the bouncing and rolling back looks good 🙂

Blue Ball:

– It feels like it sticking on the ground instead of bouncing (the second small bounce is the culprit here). Then it shoots of at the same maximum speed. Apply all the same principles here I mentioned before.

– The stop at the end is too sudden. When it hits the wall with so much force it should roll back a lot further.

Beach Ball:

– This one is the hardest, and it does need a bit of love, but it’s a good start 🙂

– When a ball hits it, make it go fast at the start when it shoots of in another direction, but then let wind resistance take over and slow it down (like a bouncing ball when it goes up, start with big spacing gaps and then make it tighter)

– It feels like the beach ball is waiting for a frame or two, hanging still in space, before the basket ball hit it. Make sure it feels like it keeps moving.

– The arc on the drop from the platform (after all the hits) could be a bit nicer. It feels a bit like it goes too flat to the ground.

– The bounces between the bowling ball and baskett ball (when it floats to the ground) feel a bit wonky. Check the graph editor there, you probably have to smooth out the curves.

So, my advice for you. Since you are pretty far in the bootcamp let’s step up your game and train your eyes 🙂

– Watch your video over and over and compare with my notes. See if you can spot what I’ve seen. Go frame by frame and also play it at full speed, switch between those. Train those eyes.

– Then get a good nights rest since it’s already late :-p

– Tomorow (or whenever you have planned to work on it again), polish the translations. Rest your eyes for at least an hour. Then watch it the same way as before with my notes and see if everything is fixed. If not, repeat as often as necessary. Also, there will probably be new issues when you fix something (that’s pretty common). Try to spot those and fix them too 🙂

– After that do the same with adding rotations, but this time, after a rest, try to make your own notes. Pick it apart. Train your eye to see more yourself. Adjust & review, over and over again, until your happy. 

– Then just submit it and let Wayne be the final judge 😉 because you can never see everything with your own work, that’s a fact, we animators need feedback. But you can train yourself to see a lot more and get better at that every time!

I will say it again, pretty good job so far! Keep it up and happy animating 😀