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Updates on researches.

Just going to post some of my researches and result on The Bouncing Ball project.
1st
2nd
3rd

 

These are the result of my first project.

 For my 1st animation, I looked at The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams. I actually bought the book off Amazon, so I can look at it when ever I want to. It included the fundamental of animation, such as creating speed through using the space between the movement on each frame.

 For my 2nd animation, even though I would love to get my hand on some grenades and throw them around, but that's not really realistic. I will probably be considered a Chinese terrorist attacking Scotland, which wouldn't be very nice.
 So I went on Call of Duty to do some researches! After doing some researches on CoD for a few hours, I still feel that I am not able to capture the jizz of the moment and scenario. As a result I decided to to some more researches, I sat down and did 2 hours straight of researches on watching Batman: The Dark Knight. I still can't believe it actually came out at 2008, whole 5 years ago!


 After a lot of hard work on researching, I believe I have enough knowledge to draw a animation explosion that makes sense. But I still feel the scenario still need some work, I came across this video on youtube which gave me an inspiration.

 After watching this I decided to create a different character compare to those cool guys in movies. I will make a not so cool guy and have him look at the explosion.

 For my 3rd, most of my researches are based on my 7 years of experiences of playing rugby and American football. I have noticed that usally after a kick when the ball lands. It is most likely to re bounce higher on the 3rd bounce, due to some science of the ball's shape that I don't really remember, I know but I just can't remember. However because I was thinking way too 2D when I am drawing this animation. It just looked like the ball came to life on the 3rd bounce, fail.
 I will look into this animation again and try to make it better.

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