Week 4 Exercise

Continuing off of last weeks post, we had to add character to our bouncing ball animations from last week, using colors and textures. As I mentioned last week, I had already gotten the squash and stretch to work reasonably well.



Next, I added the face texture for the ball, and rotated it into the correct position. I then added the texture to floor and ring, to create a colorful scene. Lastly, I added a light to give the scene a spotlight.


Rendering was a bit confusing. I eventually got it to render as an .avi file, though. The file turned out to be about 122MB though, which I thought was HUGE for a 2 second video. I ended up compressed it to a smaller file size myself outside of Maya (in order to post it here) but I would love to know what made the video so large to begin with!


The techniques I've used so far seem to be most of the key animation techniques, in Maya, and everything else just builds off of that. I can't wait to see what else we can do!

EDIT: These were my render settings, for anyone curious!






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