3D Ball Animation

When starting any kind of project in Maya, it is very important to set up your project right, otherwise, everything could mess up later down the line, for one reason or another.

So, before you do anything, you need to set your project location, like so.

So we were given the task of creating a 3D bouncing ball animation.  The ball should behave similarly to the ball on the left.

So we were given this scene, equipped with a ball and some boxes.

I then proceeded to animate the ball, using the squash and stretch animation principle.  These are all of the keyframes that I made.

I then made a playblast, which is essentially a quick rendered video, which is lower quality than a full render.  It is often used to show the progress of your project so far, without having to spend hours fully rendering it out.  To make a playblast, you right-click on your timeline (the bar with your keyframes on it), then click on the playblast button.

This is my playblast.  It is truly terrible, someone burn it with fire.