Week 11 Elearning Lab 1

Exercise 1

In the Playback End Time box, enter 72.

Click the Go To Start button to go to the start of the playback range. This changes the current frame to 1. Select the ball, then select Animate > Set Key.

Go to frame 72. With the Move Tool, drag the ball's X-axis handle to position the ball at the right edge of the ground.  Set a keyframe at 72.

Go to frame 33.

With the Move tool, drag the Y-axis handle of the ball until it sits slightly above the fence. Set a key.

Go to frame 50. At this moment, the ball sits in a position above the middle section of the right half of the ground. Move the ball so it sits on the ground. Set a key.

Go to frame 60. Move the ball up again, but not as high as its peak height above the fence. Set a key. 

With the ball selected, select Window > Animation Editors > Graph Editor. Shift-select only the Translate X and Translate Y in the left attributes in the left column of the Graph Editor.   

Select the point on the Translate Y (green) curve at frame 50. In the Graph Editor, select Tangent > Linear.

Select the key point at frame 50 (not a tangent handle). In the Graphs Editor, select Keys > Break Tangents.

Select the right tangent handle and use the Move Tool to move it up a little. Do the same for the left tangent handle. Be careful not to select the key point. 

Modify Graph Editor.



Window > Playblast.


Exercise 2

reflection

This exercise has taught me how to use keyframes and graph editors to do the introduction to animation. It was relatively easy, which made me feel like I could have done more and better animations for exercise 2.