Thursday, 16 December 2010



This was the planing stages for the movement of the bouncing ball

Friday, 3 December 2010

This is the final bouncing ball tail sequence for this 2d brief
This was the blocking in stages for my bouncing ball.. As you can see i added in a thin line to represent the tail.. This bouncing ball is a super active bold character.. Its able to think quick on its feet, but as in you can see within this short animation, it re-thinks certain moves from time to time in order to get the right landing outcome that it wants.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

This is an adjusted version of my third bouncing ball test.

Squirrel jump series



Video reference for my bouncing ball's tail

Final Bouncing ball animation



I love the way how the ball gets tighter as it moves across the screen and returns to its original form when it gets to the other side of the screen.. I want to try and incorporate that into my animation.







As you can see, you can't see the tail on the ball because i'm going to do it when i build the main foundations of the balls movability.. Once i get that down, i'll implement and assign the right key poses for the tail which relates to the ball's movability.

Monday, 22 November 2010



This was an image guide, as to how the bouncing ball moves within a 2d space.. It helps me out alot because i now know the right distance of movability of a bouncing ball as it descends down and ascends up.

Squirrel Fight



I find this clip so funny, because the squirrels tail tells alot about the mood and the intention of what their going to do.. Something, that i personally want to incorporate within my animation.


This was my own personal research that i recorded on how a bouncing ball like this moves.. This ball was extra bouncy so the outcome wasn't that surprising.

Tuesday, 9 November 2010



This is a tennis ball, and i wanted to use this kind of ball for the over across bounce test.. I personally think it looks decent, it isn't great but it isn't rubbish.. As you can see the bounce's are short and quick and it ends as fast as it begins.


This is a bowling ball and i really wanted to portray that as it impacts the ground to which it connects on.. Again this is very simple and short.


This was my first attempt of creating a bouncing ball in Toon boom.. I know this is far from perfect but i wanted to get an idea of how to go about conducting my bouncing ball on future tries by examining the mistakes that you see within this one... Lets just say this was a crush test.