First Timing and Spacing exercise

This is the first timing and spacing exercise and is a continuation of a maya file that contains rigs that the lecturer set up. It shows two bouncing balls, one is realistic, the physics ball, and the other is an exaggerated cartoon animation, the cartoon ball. Both contain 24 frames. I incorporated squash and stretch into both balls, the left one, the cartoon one, containing much more squash and stretch than the physics ball on the right. Using keyframes and manipulation of the Maya graph editor, I tried to incorporate the best timing that i could to make the two bounces run smoothly. The slight deformation of the physics ball adds to it's realism as in real life it would squash and stretch slightly but not as much as the cartoon one. I feel that the correct amount of squash and stretch was incorporated in order to add interest to the cartoon ball without ruining it and the timing works reasonably well. As a learning experience, the timing could be a bit better in places but I tried to use even numbers on the squash and stretch rig options in order to produce a smoother graph editor curve in order to get better timing.


There was an issue with the video upload and so I had to upload the edited video to Youtube before putting it here.


THIS ANIMATION USES A RIG CREATED BY JASON THEAKER AND REFERENCES ANIMATIONS ALREADY CREATED BY HIM AS PART OF A LEARNING EXPERIENCE. I DO NOT OWN OR CLAIM TO OWN IT'S CHARACTERS