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Week 3

Was excited this week to go with the project for their first meeting with Logan City Council to start the conversation around their goals for the different projects we are each working on as well to give us information about the different areas we will be working on.

This was a great experience and gave us a lot of insight into the people and area of Beenleigh which we are designing for.

Pictured also is how Logan is using primary colours on buildings, artwork, and bridges in the area as a means of deterring graffiti, these are also the colours of Logan.

Week 2

This week I received the exciting news that I was assigned to work on the Beenleigh Activation and Streetscape Project which was my first preference. I am excited to be working with a team made up with people from a range of disciplines as well as with Logan City Council!

KNB215 Assessment 2

Here we go!

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The issue of the pendulum at the end has been rectified here.

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First pass at implementing Drag and Followthrough in Maya. It’s pretty good, some timing issues are prevalent in the last bit of the video where the bottom section of the pendulum swings unnaturally fast into the followthrough.

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Finally here is the outcome of the beach ball bouncing. Similaraly to the flat basketball, the entrance speed is a bit low. However it can be seen that like the basketball, the beach ball begins with a higher airtime before rapidly losing energy. Due to the decreased elasticity of the beach ball the energy is lost even faster and as a result it stops bouncing sooner.

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The final reference video for bouncing balls is that of a beach ball. This was chosen as it has a softer exterior while also being light like the ping pong ball, yet large like the basketball.

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Here the outcome of a basketball rolling off a slope has been demonstrated. It can be seen that there is appropriate energy in the first bounce as it comes up to just below the original starting point. The momentum from the roll is also carried through the bouncing as it moves across the ground at a decreasing rate, showing a loss of momentum over time.

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This playblast is the outcome of modelling the bouncing inflated basketball. As compared to previous attempts to model bouncing balls I would say this is the most accurate as it has appropriate speed coming into the first collision with the ground and loses energy while demonstrating the elasticity of the ball through to lots of small bounces at the end.

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From the reference video of the flat basketball I created this animation of a flat basketball bouncing. The speed of falling is too slow however the lack of energy in the bounces is accurate.

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This is a reference video to see how a flat basketball bounces.

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This Maya playblast shows a ping pong ball rolling off a slope and bouncing away. The timing for this a bit off towards the end and would benefit from being extended by a second or two.

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This Maya playblast shows the output of me recreating a ping pong ball bouncing on the spot.

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Ping Pong Ball Reference

This take was one of many where I bounced a ping pong ball to study the way it passes through a bounce cycle.

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Bouncing Ball 6

This playblast shows the scene with nothing other than the plane and ball present. The next stage from here was to add some rotation to the ball to give it a more realistic look, as well as motion blur, and stretch and squash. However upon attempting an initial render, after confirming a save, Maya crashed and lost the most recent save. I was very upset.

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Bouncing Ball 5

This video has had a spotlight added. This is to give more depth and realism to the scene. There was a further addition of a plane to give the ball a consistent surface to bounce on.

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Bouncing Ball 4

This playblast shows the ball bouncing with nothing else in the scene (other than the grid).

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