External research

Before going into the animation stage i decided to do a bit of research on youtube to look at various ball animation tests to see how they compare to the ones that we recorded ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoR2k3B0ifk - As covered in the introduction to animation module, i looked up the importance and steps involved in the ball animation test. Its importance in animation in known to be quite significance in simplifying and understanding the aspects of animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6I3JI4vJv0 - This is another example of a reference shot for a ball animation, this time using a ping pong ball. Notice the difference between their reference video and the ones that we shot. the surface that the ball is being bounced off of and the material and air capacity of the ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcbXBdIvefc&feature=fvwp&NR=1 - I thought i would also include this video link in my blog as this features the disney character 'wall-e' interacting with a lot of bouncy balls for a promo for the movie before its release. i thought this was interesting to add as its relevance to what we are doing and also to see animated balls being done proffesionaly and on such a big scale.