Friday 11 October 2013

Using the Graph Editor to make a bouncing ball

After watching a couple of videos on YouTube which explain the Graph Editor in Maya and what it does, I've managed to make a short animation which shows off my understanding. At first I thought it looked extremely easy, but I soon found that tinkering with the timing of each frame takes a long time to perfect.

Bouncing Ball Animation Tutorial with Maya Parts 1 to 8 by Nash Lin



Here is a screenshot I took of the graph editor in my own animation (click to enlarge), which shows the 3 axis which were modified in order to move and rotate my ball.

X Rotation, Y and Z Translate

The video below is a playblast from my animation, which has my bouncing ball with a basic checker pattern applied to it to show rotation.

1 comment:

  1. rob13 October 2013 at 05:16

    Good work, the blogging is making this straighforward for me to track your progress so please keep this up. i think now you might want to send me a draft of the proposal so we can see how much needs to be done.

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