THE BOUNCING BALL IN 2D

THE BOUNCING BALL IN 2D


 Task : Using Photoshop CC, create an animated bouncing ball withing the some of the basic principles of animation, previously discussed in
class. Also give the ball a touch of personality.

As we can see by the pictures around, I decided to start by drawing the line of action with a light blue, on which I would later be able to draw on; I did so by drawing a series of arcs getting smaller as they reached the far right end of my canvas.
This way the ball follows an organic flow throughout the animation and progressively decelerates and bounces less. To show deceleration I also sketched the frames of the ball on top of the line of action and added several more towards the end of the animation, this way once again the ball only makes subtle movements.

Furthermore, I made 1 more layer in which I drew a face reacting to the different stages of the animation for example how it squints when hitting the floor and squashes with force.
Lastly, I retraced each frame of the ball in a new layer  and set Photoshop to display each frame with 0.1 second delay, to slow down my animation as I made the whole animation last 24 frames. Bellow is the GIF file of the final result.

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