Stop Motion Animation Test - Balloons And Bowling Balls

This next stop motion exercise was all about weight and how movement is affected by it. The task was to create the illusion of a balloon and a bowling ball falling to the ground. The balloon was created by watching reference of a balloon falling. It does small arcs in the air as it descends slowly, twirling in the wind, until it hits the floor - it then bounces quickly upwards and changes direction entirely as its momentum changes. In order to create this effect, I had the frame move sharply, to make it look as though it was quickly hitting the ground. I am proud of this test but wish I could have made my pencil markings more obvious, as they were difficult to see and therefore harder to follow exactly.

For the second test, I created the illusion of a bowling ball hitting the ground. Since bowling balls are heavy, they hardly bounce, so I incorporated this by having it drop from a greater height to see how it would react. There was a small bounce, but I feel that it could have been smaller to further create the illusion of it being a heavy ball.