Your Turn - The Bounce 1

Second exercise - you can use the techniques in A Quick Animation for it. Download this Bounce path and spacing chart and print it out.

Use the techniques in A Quick Animation to look at your animation. Or, better yet,

download StopMotion FlipView for Windows or
download StopMotion FlipView for Mac

and install it on your computer. Run StopMotion FlipView and drag one of the image files onto FlipView’s viewing area. Play the animation and change the frame rate using the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys. Change direction from forward to reverse. Ping-pong the animation and watch the coin bounce!

What kind of a bounce is this? Does it look like a dancer’s bounce or a bouncing ball? Why? Read my explanation of what you see here.

You can also download my two animations of this exercise. The one coin animation is a simple movement along the path, 24 frames totaling just under 620 kilobytes. The two coin animation is a variation, 23 frames totaling just under 605 kilobytes. Decompress the folder and view the frames – preferably with StopMotion FlipView - the easiest and most flexible way to preview your animation.

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