Question:

a) Explain five of the principles of animation?

b) With reference to the diagram below, explain how you can create a simple bouncing ball animation, specifying the key frames and position of the ball?

c) How can you make your animation more realistic? Explain using the animation principles, specifying the key frames and the transformations.

d) The graph editor helps you to more precisely control your animation. Show how your Y translation would be on the graph editor?

e) Explain the steps of animating a ball using motion path in Maya 8.5?

f) How you can make the ball in (e), appear to be rolling along the path?