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1: Bouncing Basics
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Nacho Conesa
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1: Bouncing Basics

Simple Bouncing Ball P.1

In this video Hjalti will talk about the animation principles Timing and Rhythm, Spacing and squash and Stretch. He will apply them to a bouncing ball.

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48 comments
Mike Lambert
Mike Lambert
Sept. 23rd, 2024

does anyone know if these work with Blender 4.2 please?

Anthony van Dijk
Anthony van Dijk
Dec. 17th, 2024

@Mike Lambert

Not sure, but I'm about to give it a go with 4.3!

Sky
Sky
Jan. 29th, 2025

@Anthony van Dijk Hi, i just want too know if you cam right with this coruse in Blender 4.2? :)

Veronica Jinthe
Veronica Jinthe
Jan. 27th, 2025

@Anthony van Dijk me too!

CCHS
CCHS
Nov. 8th, 2023

why me guys dont be rude

CCHS
CCHS
Nov. 8th, 2023

boshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Chris Khaukha
Chris Khaukha
Oct. 10th, 2023

i cant wait to learn to animate into full feature film thanks blender studio

Terry Rhuebottom
Terry Rhuebottom
April 6th, 2023

Very interesting. I will say there are parts where things are not explained perfectly clearly but there are others where certain principles are explained very well. I think this will be much easier to understand if someone comes in with a bit of animation knowledge before hand just to help with the problem areas. Definitely a solid approach though to explaining things as long as understand the few areas where it's a bit jumbled.

Mateusz Skarzynski
Mateusz Skarzynski
April 5th, 2023

outdated payed 12eu which is quite a bit in my country.For nothing wasted many hours of my life trying to figure out how to fix all of the rigs also many futeres are replaced or non existant now

Anmol Krishna
Anmol Krishna
March 29th, 2023

@Nacho Conesa hi, you didn't explain the Rhythm by taking the seperate example....so can you share here withexample difference like what is rhythm and to which principle it's connected with...?

derek henry
derek henry
Dec. 8th, 2022

these blend files seem crash in blender 3.3 the don't open anymore sadly

Vincent Blender
Vincent Blender
Oct. 7th, 2022

He just blew my mind 5 minutes in...

Kidist
Kidist
Oct. 1st, 2022

3D body modeling

Sabbir Ahmed
Sabbir Ahmed
Sept. 26th, 2022

You explained it fantastically! Timing, Spacing, Squash and Stress... Thank You

Maurizio Cordopatri
Maurizio Cordopatri
Dec. 15th, 2021

Is there the possibiliy to publish the animations and get feedback?

Lamek
Lamek
Oct. 12th, 2021

Holy mama what a golden course. Blender Institute is the best cgi thing in this world. Thanks for this!

Christopher Wright
Christopher Wright
Sept. 21st, 2021

Graduated AM and looking for more to learn. Loving this series so far, would love to see more advanced acting topics in the future!

Manga Ki
Manga Ki
May 29th, 2021

The comment section here is on fire. Thank you for the feedback. I've also signed up for blender cloud

Marc Hopkins
Marc Hopkins
April 4th, 2021

I found this very informative. It also cleared up for me some concepts that I was thinking all to deep in.

Joanne Seale
Joanne Seale
March 28th, 2021

When the ball stretches before impacting and squashing I guessing this is for visual appeal? I'm not sure if an object would do that physically.

Brandon Ayers
Brandon Ayers
Nov. 15th, 2022

@Joanne Seale It is a common technique to fake motion blur. It's been a standard for almost 100 years.

Vitalii Bosakevich
Vitalii Bosakevich
March 15th, 2021

After completing the course, now I think this is the most important part of it!

bryanharrison369
bryanharrison369
March 2nd, 2021

I appreciate the videos, however, a ball doesn't stretch BEFORE it hits the ground. this ignores a fundamental principle. for an object to react to a force, the force must first be acted upon it. As its falling, its going to maintain its shape until it is squashed by the impact of hitting the ground. Once it hits the ground and squashes, then when it comes up up again, it will stretch as a reaction to being squashed by the ground. So. Its in the air, its round. It hits the ground, it squashes. It comes off of the ground and reacts to the squash by stretching a little, then settles back into its round state.

Vitalii Bosakevich
Vitalii Bosakevich
March 15th, 2021

@bryanharrison369 I'd say this BEFORE stretching rather conveys our impressions of the behavior of things, and not reality itself. :)

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Dusica Kosarac
Dusica Kosarac
July 11th, 2021

@bryanharrison369 The force of gravity is dragging the ball down, the stretch is a visual representation of the force of gravity acceleration.

d.zaleckis
d.zaleckis
Feb. 6th, 2021

Honestly video is too long for only 3 principles of animation. For me same 3 principles are explained way better (visually) and quicker in below video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4&list=PL-bOh8btec4CXd2ya1NmSKpi92U_l6ZJd&index=13

Maurizio Cordopatri
Maurizio Cordopatri
Dec. 15th, 2021

@d.zaleckis  3 animation principles are the basics for doing everything. If you don't understand this you can't do anything. Right give it a lot of space

Adrei Dulay
Adrei Dulay
June 6th, 2022

@Maurizio Cordopatri true

Carmela Zabala
Carmela Zabala
Jan. 5th, 2021

Honestly, the sound effects of the ball moving are probably my favorite part. You know, in addition to the absolutely fantastic content.

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Jan. 3rd, 2021

Love this so far. Signed up to blender cloud because of this. It's so difficult to find good animation tutorials online, even paid. Very happy to have found this :)

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Huân Lê-Vương
Huân Lê-Vương
Aug. 17th, 2020

Hello, can we do this in simulation?

mudu
mudu
Oct. 26th, 2020

@Huân Lê-Vương Yeah, but then there is no artistic soul in it and its harder to control.

odb592
odb592
June 25th, 2020

Damn I've paid for subscription but never got here ..... Many thanks, great video I've learned a lot of :) , lol does remind fibonacci sequence

shakenjuggler
shakenjuggler
June 22nd, 2020

The lines you start drawing in relation to the bounce effect (5:41) started me thinking of the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci number which, in my limited mind, are one and the same. If converted to units of measurements and reversed, you can almost map this animation out without the reference. For example, if you started with a unit of 34 for the first bounce, the next units of distance would be 21, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1 then zero.

Godwin Jimoh
Godwin Jimoh
May 29th, 2020

Ok, this is probably Animator mentor but for blender! I subscribed to the cloud today and I'm super hyped seeing this here. can't wait to get started

Johnny Shumway
Johnny Shumway
May 24th, 2020

This is so good, I learned so much in this video!

rafarutoguts
rafarutoguts
May 17th, 2020

Bonjour, existe t-il une traduction française s'il vous plaît?

tallaridaj
tallaridaj
March 26th, 2020

3:30 bouyancy = the ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid. bounciness = the quality of a substance that is able to rebound

Maria Silva
Maria Silva
March 7th, 2020

I learned and had as much fun. Thanks.

Matt
Matt
March 2nd, 2020

This is probably the best 3d animation course I've seen.

Terry Rhuebottom
Terry Rhuebottom
April 6th, 2023

@Matt It's pretty good. But I will say that I took a lot away from the Animator's Survival Kit DVD course and that really helped overall especially in the areas in this video where some terminology problems popped up. Definitely a solid video still.

dan12
dan12
Feb. 7th, 2020

At around 31 minutes when discussing spacing favoring in the opposite direction of the bouncing ball, I found that imagining a "hovering" object acting like a spring w/ downwards force and then released helped visualize this in a setting/use case where you might want to apply this principle.

dan12
dan12
Feb. 7th, 2020

"Squash ANS", that reaction haha ;)

Steph
Steph
Dec. 26th, 2019

i wish there was a triple like button for this course. thank you for explaining the what and the why

Gregory Dymitrowicz
Gregory Dymitrowicz
Oct. 10th, 2019

Hjalti, just wanted to say I appreciate all these new animation courses, thanks for being so enthusiastic and thorough.

Mike Erwin
Mike Erwin
Sept. 21st, 2019

grrreen!

Good visual explanation of these concepts.

Steph
Steph
Sept. 20th, 2019

yaaay thanks for this

Gemma María Rull
Gemma María Rull
Sept. 20th, 2019

OMG, this all updated already? no excuse to miss it.

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