The First of the 3D Projects

So, as he said he would in our Maya session, Georg has set us a 3D assignment in Maya. It was set this morning, so I decided to do it immediately, to prevent from falling under a huge workload again. The task was to create 2 bouncing balls that fall at different speed, either creating them together, both in one video, or separately. TI knew I could do them separately, as I made one with squash and stretch when I came home earlier in the week, so I decided to do them both together, This caused a few problems that confused me at first when I was working on the animation graph, but I got my head round it. I had difficulty creating the slower falling ball, but I think it went well in the end. I also added colour to the balls, since I was messing around and discovered it was rather easy to do in Maya.

Return of the Ball

Okay so here is my slightly improved version of the Boucing Ball. I think the animation is smoother, the lighting is better and I added shading to the ball. The downside is that I somehow got a stain on the first frame. Still, I think it is better than the first version, and I have learnt to protect my frames better from stains. Another problem was that the line tester I used seemed to have a smudge or somthing on the centre of the lense which i could wipe off, which is a shame and effects the animation, but the other line tester was pretty full, with a nice long que of people wanting a clean smudge free animation. I thought the smudge doesnt ruin the animation all that much so I went with it. Enjoy: