And that's it. We'll continue building on this animation (and building our snowballs to make a snowman) with a few more effects in the next lesson, but for now this is all we need to demonstrate these techniques. To see the Flash version of this (with the gradients and colors intact), click here.
Flash Animation 14: Gravity, Squash, and Stretch
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
So all that needs to be done after that is to move to each keyframe where the snowball strikes the ground, and scale it down to show how it squashes on impact. On each impact I've scaled it just a little less, because it's falling from a lesser height with less force, and so it won't squish as much.
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- Introduction and Setting Up the Scene
- Creating and Placing Our Object to be Animated
- Basics of a Bouncing Animation
- Extending the Bouncing Animation
- Animating the Pull of Gravity on the Bouncing Ball: Deceleration
- Animating the Pull of Gravity on the Bouncing Ball: Acceleration
- Introduction to Squash and Stretch
- "Squashing" the Bouncing Snowball
- Bouncing Snowball Completed
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