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Ball Bounces

Ball Bounces

Overview


For this project, we had to make three different animations which all included a ball bouncing. One had to bounce up and down, one came from the side, and the third one had to have a surprise ending. Beforehand, we were taught how to make a frame animation on Photoshop, and then we were released to make these three animations.


How We Did It


For this project, we started off by making our background, and our ball. After we had done this, we used the command, option-drag to create multiple copies of our ball. Once we had done this, we moved all of the different balls to a specific area that would make it look like an animation in it's final form. We then started the actual animation, where we started off with our original ball, with all of the others hidden. Then we created a new frame, and hid our original ball, and showed the next copy. We repeated this process until we had gone through all of our frames. There were different things we had to add for the specific animations (such as up & down repeating itself, and the surprise ending). This entire process resulted in our final animations.


Conclusion


Overall, I think these animations were pretty successful, and I enjoyed learning how to make a frame animation. I do think that if I did this again, and spent a little more time on it, I could've made the animation look much cleaner, and less choppy. However, considering this is my first time making a frame animation on Adobe Photoshop, I am very happy with my final products and how everything went as a whole.

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