Week 12 : Bounce Ball

Exercise 1 : Bouncing Ball

Finally, I can complete this animation on Maya...

When doing this bouncing ball, I face some problems of rendering.

After seeking for help from our tutor, I solve the problem and can upload successfully.

Overall, this exercise is quite challenging and fun.

Exercise 2

1) Do you need to be able draw well to create good 2D animation? Explain your view.

    

No. Actually, 2D is quite simple to draw because it does not require much details of an object. It is just drawing the surface of an object.Thus, we do not need to be able to draw well to create a good 2D animation. 

2) Do you need to be able draw well to create good 3D animation? Explain your view.

No, we do not need to be able to draw well to create a good 3D animation but we need to be able to visualize the dimension of depth, width and height of the object or character. We also can create 3D object by using polygons tool or do editing using vertices.

3) What do you think would separate a piece of poor animation from a piece of good animation? In other words, how would you go about deciding if a piece of animation is good or bad?

Animation is just like a good film, a good animation must portray itself effectively and speak to the audience. A bad animation will just leave the audience clueless on what the animation is trying to present.

4) In 2D animation, you need to be very aware of timing at a frame by frame level, using timing charts and other techniques - but for 3D animation, this is handled using the graph editor, which is more concerned with manipulating rates of change over time.

Does this affect how you approach your animation work? Explain.

This does not affect much how I approach my animation work. It is still quite similar, just that we can create more possibilities with the graph editor. We can also edit the speed of the animation from the graph editor which is extremely useful to me.

5) Give a brief critique of Maya as an animation tool. Don't just say Maya makes animation difficult, or easy, or that you need to learn a lot of stuff to use Maya - explain what Maya does well and not so well in terms of creating animation.

I felt that the placement of the animation tools is kind of messy. Instructions was not clear enough, too complicated. As a first timer, i find it rather confusing.