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A Bouncing... Ball... — Description
My first ever animation made in Adobe Edge Animate. Of all time.

It's choppy.
It's wobbly.
It's horrible.
It's a complete mess.
It marks the begining of a potentiallly skilled animator.

Alright, jokes aside this is a grotesque animation. But like I said, it is the very first I've ever made. I was bord one day, and didn't want to work on my current projects at the moment, so I decided to open my Adobe Animate program for the very first time and see what I could do with it. Considering I know nothing about Flash animation, let alone its workspace, this could probably be an achivement for a first timer. I wasn't really trying too hard to make something fantastic, I was just speeddrawing the whole thing, while learning the differnet controls, and remembering all of the different animation techneques I've learned so much about, in order to make a simple animation of a... ball bouncing up and down...

In truth, this isn't the first animation I've done. I once found a tutorial on Adobe's support website and followed along to animate a -guess what?- ball bouncing. But that was following a tutoral that instructed you to bend a simple shape all over the place, while this animation was all free drawn with the pen tool.

I hope that one day, I'll master a method that utilizes both techniques in order to create smooth, yet dynamic, animations.