Tuesday, 27 January 2009

27th January 2009 - 1st Lecture of Semester 2

After reading through the brief for semester 2, I will look into some current idents to get some ideas and then start developing my own in 3D S Max. After todays lecture, I have learnt how to animate a sphere and make it bounce. This will come in useful for my idents if I decide to produce an animation for a channel such as Sky Sports, as the sphere could be made into a bouncing basketball.

To basically animate a sphere, I used the timeline and autokey. By drawing a sphere and clicking autokey, I then made a keyframe on the timeline and was able to move the sphere up to the desired "drop" height. I then held down shift and copied the keyframe to the far end of the timeline to create the basic bounce. I then used the curve editor and dope sheet to tweak the bounce.


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