Use The Graph Editor To Animate A Simple Bouncing Ball

Use The Graph Editor To Animate A Simple Bouncing Ball

on Nov 22nd 2012 with 4 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 23:18 min
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In this tutorial we will take an in-depth look at the graph editor to see how helpful it is and how making some tweaks on the curves will help us get the a more desirable motion. We will use the animation of a simple bouncing ball inside After Effects as an example. Finally, we’ll play around with the scale property to recreate “squash & stretch” effect on the ball.

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  • Xandercorp

    Who here needed a tutorial on this? The only useful thing is the presentation of the motionscript.com website, at the end. However even that one might be less useless for someone who uses ease and wizz of aescripts.com .

    • http://twitter.com/sircraig01 Sir Craig

      Well, golly, I guess not everyone was born with the innate knowledge of all things After Effects. Perhaps if you bothered to notice it says “Beginner” for the difficulty level, you might have gone ahead and skipped this as you seem to have all the knowledge necessary already. You should know, though, this site and its tutorials are not reserved specifically for the ultra-competent such as yourself, but rather for everyone at all levels in the hopes of making them more adept.

      • Xandercorp

        And while I do agree with what you’re saying there are tutorial courses that take you from scratch to this, there’s also a set that talks about the 12 principles of animation. Look, spend two weeks on here, you’ll see my point.

  • Facundo

    I found some interesting things on this tutorial. But, on the other side, I suspect there’s a way much simpler than the one showed here to achieve the animation. Also, the animation of the rotation should be done before the animation of the scale because the relative position of the ball from it’s axis then is altered and the result it’s a bit weird.
    Even though, it encourage me to look for better results and resolve other type of natural movements as well.
    I’ve seen many of your tutorials and they’re very interesting. Keep doing them