Homework 3 - Story Animation

Part 1:

As a right-of-passage to the Halls of Animators, you need to animate (and extend) the bouncing ball that appears in Figure 2 of Lasseter's paper. Make the ball enter the stage from the left, bounce on the floor a couple of times before bouncing of the right side of the stage (which is to behave as hard as the floor), then bounce back on the floor before disappearing on the left side of the stage. You should use vector graphics for this animation, as it will make your life easier. (See Ariel's ball as an example.) Name your file name_ball.dir, where name is your puma account name.

Part 2:

Now you have gotten down the basic animation techniques, it is time to create a more complex animation. An animation that has a theme, a story to tell, and does so nicely.

• Your story should have a "punch line", or a "message". It should last between 25 and 40 seconds
• Your .dir file has size no greater than 350 KB. You will want it to be small so that you can post it on your web site.
• You animation should present a dynamic view, that is, it should have panning, zooming or background movement.
• It should have at least 4 active characters (not just cast members) and
• (optional) some way of starting, stopping and replaying from the beginning.

Avoid multiple unnecessary cast members of the same character, place your sprites neatly on the score, measure the timing of your animation carefully, name your file name_story.dir, where name is your puma account name and story is a one-word description of your animation.

In brief, your animation should look "professional". You will be graded not only on the technical part of creating the animation, but also on the creative part of the story.

Ah, yes. And you should have fun!

What to submit: When done, create a folder hw3 and place it inside your CS215 directory of your puma account. Place two folders inside hw3 called ball and story, one for each of the parts above. Each folder should contain the html file and the .dcr file that are created when you published your project. In addition, it should include the .dir file you worked on.

Some examples from past years:
Chloe - Wenjun - Yilun - Miranda