THE PROCESS

Animation Setup

Because this project was going to require a lot of animation for the various spheres throughout, I wanted to create an easy way to control them throughout the animation. I added a pose morph tag on an FFD deformer nested below the sphere and manually changed the point on the FFD to achieve the various poses that I needed for the animation. Then I added User Data for the controls so that I could quickly and efficiently animate all of the different spheres throughout the video. I also wanted to ensure that the ball was rotating as I moved it so I used some simple xpresso to rig up the sphere and tie the rotation values to the z position values.