Bouncing Balls Assignment - File:bouncing_balls.max
Due: 2nd Class (Thursday) Week 02, at the beginning of class.
To Turn In:
- Your 3DS Max 2010 file -- (it must work on the school machines)
- A rendered QuickTime movie CLEARLY showing your balls bouncing, one at a time, down the stairs and into the cage.
- All of the above in a folder labeled: "Lastname_Firstname_BBalls".
Read the pdf handout: "Timing for Animation: Bouncing Ball"available on the Drop Off Drive.
Next class we will critique your work based on that reading.
You are to bounce three balls, one at a time, down the stairs and into the arena.
The balls are each of a different type:
1. A basketball
2. A bowling ball
3. A non-helium-or-hydrogen-filled balloon .
You are to animate each falling down the stairs with realistic, true-to-physics timing, squash and stretch, and arcs.
You may add another ball composed of the material of your choice once you have completed these.
The ball rolls down, drops, and bounces toward the box. The ball interacts with the box and heads toward the other objects. .
- How believable is your animation? (Does that sphere move like a basketball or a bowling ball?) Make your animation look “correct” in normal, slow, and reverse speeds.
- Does each object that is moving move in an appropriate (believable) manner?
- How does a bowling ball move differently from a basketball?
- How different is their timing from one another?
- How appropriate are the interactions between objects (stationary and movable)?
- How does the volume of the sphere change as it interacts with other objects?
- Identify the fundamental animation features and function devices in the 3D animation software package used
- Transform a 3D model using motion and time
bouncing ball tutorial by idleworm.com