No one can teach you to see
The bouncing ball exercise is used to learn the fundamentals of timing and spacing. After countless attempts, this still doesn’t quite cut it. I couldn’t see it when I first started animating, but now looking back I can tell what could be done differently. The arcs on the bounces feel forced. The spacing on the frames needs to change a little where they hit the ground. Right now the ball doesn’t know if it is heavy or light. The last few bounces speed up too fast in relation to the beginning. A grand attempt.
If you would like to loop this video, right click on the vimeo player and click on ‘loop is off’ which changes it to ‘loop is on’
http://vimeo.com/8340186
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