Deleted my previous comment - after mashing a few keys I figured out that the ALT key is the equivalent to the 'Option' key. This is such a useful tutorial. I was having difficulty replicating it purely on my own but have it nailed now. I'm not a pro graphics designer at all but I do a lot of animations for my own twitch stream and and doing some for a friend at the minute with a bouncing, or not, egg for him :). Again, ths is so useful - I can see how the principles in it could be applied to other stuff too. Thanks Plugin Play!
I have a question, How can I add ball's shadow on the floor. Because when the ball bounces, it will touch floor that's why I wanted have shadow on the floor. Thank you so much.
Sorry for the late reply! I would duplicate the ball, remove the position keyframes, alt-click on the x position stopwatch, drag the expression pickwhip to the x position stop watch of the ball. This should get the duplicated ball to follow the original ball on the x axis, but not up and down on the y axis. From there I would scale down the duplicate ball's y axis to get an oval shape and a fill effect. Set the fill to be black and then set the transparency on the layer to be around 20 percent. I would then keyframe the scale of the duplicate to be slightly larger when the ball is at it's highest and slightly smaller when the ball touching the ground. Hope that helps!
This is great, thanks! I have a question about applying squash and stretch after already rotating the ball though. If I try to scale the ball in any way, it applies it diagonally since the Y axis was rotated, if that makes sense. It seems like such a simple thing to fix, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it.
Deleted my previous comment - after mashing a few keys I figured out that the ALT key is the equivalent to the 'Option' key. This is such a useful tutorial. I was having difficulty replicating it purely on my own but have it nailed now. I'm not a pro graphics designer at all but I do a lot of animations for my own twitch stream and and doing some for a friend at the minute with a bouncing, or not, egg for him :). Again, ths is so useful - I can see how the principles in it could be applied to other stuff too. Thanks Plugin Play!
I enjoy your tutorial format; it's focused, simple, and easy to follow.
Thank you! We try to keep them pretty in depth so that anyone can follow along.
Thanks so much for this tutorial, it was exactly what I needed!
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I have a question, How can I add ball's shadow on the floor. Because when the ball bounces, it will touch floor that's why I wanted have shadow on the floor. Thank you so much.
Sorry for the late reply!
I would duplicate the ball, remove the position keyframes, alt-click on the x position stopwatch, drag the expression pickwhip to the x position stop watch of the ball. This should get the duplicated ball to follow the original ball on the x axis, but not up and down on the y axis.
From there I would scale down the duplicate ball's y axis to get an oval shape and a fill effect. Set the fill to be black and then set the transparency on the layer to be around 20 percent. I would then keyframe the scale of the duplicate to be slightly larger when the ball is at it's highest and slightly smaller when the ball touching the ground.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for you. Great lesson!
This is great, thanks! I have a question about applying squash and stretch after already rotating the ball though. If I try to scale the ball in any way, it applies it diagonally since the Y axis was rotated, if that makes sense. It seems like such a simple thing to fix, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it.
Hey there! Try to precomp the ball before applying squash and stretch to it. Then rotate the object inside of the comp.
great help thank you. A novice AE user.
Glad that I could help!
Thx!
sounds stupid but I can simple use a pen tool from illustration and position it in after effects ? It just doesnt look realistic
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