Bouncing Ball Project (animation)

Guidelines: Create a 2D animation that includes three “bouncing ball”scenes: 

  1. Ball moving across the screen 
  2. Ball bounce 
  3. Ball with emotion (students may pick the emotion of their choice – sad, shy, angry, anxious etc. – but it should be portrayed only through motion, NOT through added design elements such as eyes, mouth etc.).

Grading rubric

Create a storyboard for the “emotion” scene before animating it (see template below).  Use the 12 principles of animation (including anticipation, ease-in and out, squash and stretch etc.). Export the scenes into a single Quicktime (.mp4) file. Storyboard template

Files to submit: 

  1. The completed storyboard (see template above), exported to PDF or JPG
  2. The Animate file (.fla), containing 3 scenes: straight motion, bounce, emotion
  3. The web-ready .mp4 file with all 3 scenes
  4. The completed statement, exported to PDF

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