First Bowling Ball

This is only one pass of my first fully rendered version of the bowling ball.

Bowling Ball First attempt

This is my first attempt at the bowling ball - I used to reference footage which i included in a previous comment's about the bowling ball to help me make this as accurate as possible. When i was first given the task to make the ball bounces, i heard my 3D tutor tell another student that the ball shouldn't role too much as it would make it look like the ball is on a slope and therefore the travel shouldn't be a large distance. I interpreted that as the balls should bounce on the spot. REALISTICALLY..... if you 'dropped' a bowling ball from a height - it would just bounce near enough on the same spot. If you bounced the ball then it would bounce in the direction you intended to bounce the ball in!! The brief says to animate a shuttlecock bowling ball and tennis ball that has been dropped from a height of 1 metre. So logically if would only bounce on the spot - but due to worry i thought i would go one on the spot and one bouncing in a direction.

So that is why i animated the bowling ball dropping on the same spot. Anyway i thought i would give it a go, similarly like i did with the tennis ball! Im going to make the ball bounce in the sense of frames very similar to the first attempt. I will use the reference footage again that i included on a previous post but i will try and make the bounce slightly better spaced then the tennis ball bounce. Im thinking i could slightly move the spacing for each bounce of the bowling ball and just make it roll at the end? This maybe easier to animate and look more realistic. I wont animate the roll too much because i don't want it to make it make it seem like the ball is on a slope.... It should be much easier to animate the roll compared to the tennis ball because i can squash and stretch the bowling ball at any point, there isn't any restrictions! Bonus!!