First Animation - Ball Bouncing

One of the first projects we worked on during the first week of animation was making a ball bounce in Adobe After Effects. The task was supposed to teach us the basics of animation as well as analysing the core movements of a ball when it bounces. Below is the final result.

Dat Physics thou

Creating the bounce effect (while intimidating) was quite simple. The trick is to stretch the ball at certain points of the animation to give it the illusion that the ball is fast at certain parts of the animation.