


Is it a medium ball? A small ball? Or is it a huge ball? Lastly, what is the density of the ball. The first thing we need to ask ourselves is what type of ball do we want to animate? Knowing what it’s made of helps us decide whether we want to exaggerate and make it cartoony or do we want to make it more realistic. It’s the very basic building block to making and creating more complicated animation. The reasoning behind that is that it is the foundational beginnings of all types of animations.

When I first started working for Disney, one of the first exercises they gave us was animating a bouncing ball. Why do we practice bouncing balls? Why is it important? In this tutorial, I try to highlight the importance of understanding the bouncing ball animation with a quick exercise.Ī lot of people have asked me why we practice the bouncing ball all the time.
