MORE SCREENSHOTS! TRY OUTS WITH THE TAIL!

OK i have taken more screenshots but there was a stage were i was having trouble with the tail.

(Looking at the image above and below) What trouble i had with the tail was i wanted to lay it flat on the ground next to the tail. I wanted to create a relaxed position for my ball as it moved quickly in the previous fames. I was worried that i had broken the tail because the tail was no longer inside the rings. This was also another issue i had with other parts of the animation cause i wanted to make the tail do certain things ( creat esquirrel sitting. position http://zardoz67.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/squirrel.jpg) but unforantely it wasnt allow me to do so.

This screenshot is more a birds eye view. Also shows some of my graph editor

Here is another renderd screenshot

Ball across the screen (no tail)

OK!!! i should of uploaded this 1st but heck

Before i started my Ball and tail in Maya, i done a very short animation of a ball moving across a screen with a tail. I used a simple flat plane for my background and added a small amount of light so the scene wasnt to dark.

Screenshots of my ball and tail in maya

WOW THIS WAS A MISSSON!!! For my next part of my project i create a bouncing bail and tail in maya. I was given a bail and tail rig and a platform for it to move across

2D_FINAL_BOUNCING BALL

Here is the animation of the ball and tail , however without the tail.

2D_FINAL_BALL AND TAIL

In this video, i have finished the tail throughout the scene. i have also added inbetween drawings of the tail in certain sections to make it flow smoothly. Another thing i corrected was 'overlap'.

My tutor reminded me that when the ball is moving then stops, that the 'Tail' should still have some sort of movement.

test 1 with tail

ok, heres a test with the tail attached

here is the 1st test of my animation. However i still have to do some corrections to the speed, then add my tail