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How to animate a tennis ball roll
I want to create an animation wherein a tennis ball rolls into frame and stops. Ideally, make it look realistic and that its rolling in 3d space rather than just moving into frame.
Is there a relatively simple way of doing this? or even better, do stock vector videos/animations exist? Is this a thing?
Thanks 🙂
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well do you have element 3d? If not you could do a 2d animated roll.
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You could also use the CC sphere to simulate this but its a little tricky because it’s not really 3D.
But just for a 2D ball , you can put an expression on the ball – you keyframe the rotation and then apply the math of: distanceTravelled = 2*Pie*R*rotationAngle/360
I couldn’t figure out how to post the symbol for Pie
R is the radiusThis way the balls “sticks” to the ground as it rolls and doesn’t spin at the wong rate.
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