Syllabus	U of MN Animation Home Page
Class Outline	Links
Recommended Texts	John Lasseter's Principles of Animation
Assignments
	After Effects tutorial at the Adobe web site

 

The Bouncing Ball Assignment

 

The Bouncing Ball Assignment

Using Maya, create an animation about 15 – 30 seconds in length of a bouncing ball. 

The animation should have three parts:

1. The ball should bounce at least three times and clearly demonstrate its weight and ‘bounciness’, through squash and stretch and timing.
2. The Ball should bounce through a flaming hoop.
3. The ball bouncing should be rendered as a QuickTime

 

The animation should also include your name and an image of yourself. 

 

The animations should be very SIMPLE --- keep it achieveable, but effective. 
This is an opportunity to explore methods and techniques while focusing on fundamentals.

• This is due next time, at the beginning of class.
• Render it as a QuickTime movie, 640X480, using either the Sorensen Video 3 or H.264 compressor. 
• Drop it off in our drive on the Network, and we’ll take a look at these next time.