Bouncing Ball

The idea of just filming a ball bouncing across the screen made me bored so I decided to make it more interesting. I feel like I went a little bit overboard but I had fun doing it.
Usually baseballs don't bounce as much as I animated them to. I exaggerated the bouncing of the baseball to make it be more appealing to watch and to showcase the point of the assignment, a bouncing ball. To create the bouncing ball effect, I had 3 puppets for each size of ball; one round, one flattened for impact, and one stretched for speed. For each of the characters, I watched a baseball pitching video and batting video frame by frame and replicated the important ones needed to give the impression of a fluid movement.

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