2016
Digital Tutors / Pluralsight.com
Eric Kunzendorf
5:42
English

Throughout these lessons, we'll explore modeling, rigging and animating a bouncing ball. We'll cover rigging rationales and methods for rigging two distinct types of balls. We'll discuss methods of animating these balls naturalistically and as distinct characters in and of themselves. This course discusses music as a starting point for timing and presents methods for executing a short animation. The course concludes by discussing lighting and rendering techniques applicable to enhance the storyline.

1 Introduction and project overview
2 Specifying the character creation parameters
3 Beginning a “simple” ball rig
4 Finishing the “simple” ball rig
5 Adding different geometry to the “simple” ball rig
6 Creating the ball and the control curves
7 Scripting the NURBS curve creation script
8 Grouping the controls and add control joints
9 Hooking up the multiplyDivide nodes
10 Adding the lattice and clusters
11 Using an enumerated attribute
12 Examining reference video
13 Animating the “physics-based” bounce
14 Finishing the bounce animation
15 “Animating” the ball
16 Blocking the translations
17 Squashing and stretching the ball
18 Planning the animation
19 Blocking the translations
20 Animating the freeform ball aka “the Shmoo”
21 Blocking the translations using stepped keys
22 Animating the doubletake
23 Refining the doubletake
24 Changing from stepped to plateau keys
25 Creating a top to bottom bounce
26 Creating fluid poses
27 Beginning the tail creation process
28 Creating FK controls for the tail and making switch controls
29 Cleaning up the visibility controls
30 Controlling the tail
31 Playblasting for multiple cameras
32 Test rendering the ball animations
33 Preparing for animation rendering
34 Script rendering multi-camera animation


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