If your animation training didn’t start with bouncing balls, there is no point starting acting.<\/p>\n
Professionally\u00a0I have had numerous shots where I had to animate “simple” bouncing objects: from planks of woods detaching from a ceiling in “Inferno”, to\u00a0metallic\u00a0cans and lids bouncing off the floor on “Grizzy” or even “Grizzy” himself bouncing off a van and the pinnacle of my career: animating “Wonder Woman”‘s God-Killer sword being knocked off her hands.<\/p>\n
Those shots might lack the appeal of talking characters but they will almost certainly expose animator’s weaknesses. No wonder Pixar interns start their internship animating bouncing “lifesavers”<\/a> before graduating to Pixar production characters.<\/p>\n Except maybe the water filled\u00a0ballon\u00a0that seems to be sliding on the floor,\u00a0 here are some excellent and fun bouncing ball examples by Tom\u00e1\u0161 Jech<\/a> who I think I have already featured here for a great TED talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n