Anticipation - Diving into pool

This diving pool animation challenged me to get the right sort of look and I wanted to characterise the ball so I made it bounce a couple of times before diving into the pool. The part that I think I got most accurate is the diving board as the ball bounces on/ off it and the ripple that’s caused by the ball character’s final jump. I feel like this gave it a more realistic look that feels right even though it’s exaggerated and I was also able to fit in some anticipation just before the ball bounces one last time. Also, the timing was good for the audience to see that the character is preparing to jump off the diving board and to then use up some of the frames to show anticipation before it jumps. Overall, I think that this animation is quite well done in the aspect that you can tell what’s happening in the scene and that you can see the subtle anticipation I added to it. If I was to do this again, I would animate the rotations of the ball so that it’s characteristics is more believable when it jumps forwards and when it’s falling into the pool.