Anticipation - bouncing balls

This week we were looking at anticipation within an animation and how important that can be for the viewers to recognise what the animators want them to prepare for in a scene. This exercise involved use animating two different balls that have some anticipation before they’re launched upwards. One ball has a short distance to jump to and so the squash and stretch isn’t that emphasised and the other one has a longer travel and so it has more squash and stretch included so that it seems believable for it to go that far. Since I’m quite used to animating bouncing balls in Maya, I completed this exercise more quickly than the others and I feel like I was able to capture the right look for the balls to have some anticipation before jumping up from the ground. Therefore, I used the graph editor quite effectively to get the result I wanted and I have understood the use of anticipation, which will be most useful when I animate characters in the future.