Sunday, September 5, 2010

Critique please

This is my first pass of both a ball bounce and pendulum.  Can I get a critique and maybe some advice as to where I should go from here?

4 comments:

  1. ambitious...not crazy about combining these exercises, but I like the idea of it..

    right now there's 2 main problems.

    1. the ball bounce doesn't accellerate with gravity..it slows down before it hits. the intial impact is nice, the second bounce is a little slow, as is the 4th and 5th.

    2. the pendulum after the first strike snaps back into place like a car antenna...very rigid. the design of the pendulum doesn't seem to support this. I would mute all the pendulum channels except the platform and get the ball and platform working well together, then unmute the next 2 nodes down.

    also, watch the rapid accelleration in movement in the pendulum as well as when it accellerates and decellerates.

    also...use video reference if you can...with a set of keys and dental floss you can quickly get a sense of accelleration and settle.

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  2. Also...when you playblast, use a frame counter to make it easier to critique!

    in the scripts I gave you guys, the mel command is "frameDisplay"

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  3. Thanks Jeff... Do you think that this was an overly ambitious idea?

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