I was given a sheet which explained the ball animation and how to do it step by step. There are specific frames which are detailed for specific reasons as they are key frames such as when the ball is at its peak in the air or when it has impacted onto the ground. We had to draw these out 1st on a small sheet of paper and have a line along the bottom to act as the floor and this was the guide to line each frame up as well. We copied the main frames 1st then started to fill in the rest of the shot for the ball, these mainly consisted of the ball falling down and then bouncing up again slowly losing its momentum until it had gradually stopped and stayed still.
One we had all of these frames onto our small booklet we then took a screen shot of every page using iStopmotion and a digital camera connected up to the mac. I blue tacked the back of my pad of paper so that when I turned over the pages the pad would not move so the line would stay in the same place and create a smooth flow throughout the process. However a few of my shot at the end got blurry and I couldn't focus the camera for some reason so I tried to make them look as good as possible but I still think it looks quite good despite the blur.
Once we had each of these we then had import it into Final Cut and create a small animation out of it however the clip only lasted for about 4 seconds so we had to copy the clip and repeat it a few times to give the video some length.
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