From the course: 12 Principles of Animation for CG Animators
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Solution: An exercise with a ball
From the course: 12 Principles of Animation for CG Animators
Solution: An exercise with a ball
- [Instructor] Being mindful of timing is incredibly difficult. I've always recommended looking at reference, like filming something or watching something online. Because you have to be really diligent about understanding how things move over space. If you did your research, you'll know that the bowling ball and the ping-pong ball fall at exactly the same rate. Just because one's heavier, doesn't actually change anything. What happens is is that gravity, and acceleration, all are at the same speed. 9.8 meters per second square. So, that means as an animator, both the bowling ball and the ping-pong ball are gonna hit the ground at exactly the same time. But, what happens after the initial land is where things go really different. The ping-pong ball's gonna take a whole bunch of momentum back with it up into the air. But the bowling ball, being much heavier, will only bounce up so much. And then, after the next bounce, the bowling ball's gonna lose even more energy and bounce back down…
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