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Hole in One!

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For the first project, my goal was to animate a bouncing ball. How could I do that? The answer came to me thanks to my family's favorite activity to do in Florida, golfing! Featuring a flagpole, a sloped hill, and golf hole, this animation shows a golf shot ricochet off the pole, causing it to move, and then bounce and roll down the sloped hill into the hole for a beautiful hole in one shot! I was sure to add a squash effect for the times the ball bounced off the pole and ground, a smaller one for the final bounce at the highest point it reached on the hill, and also added the ball rolling down the hill, and eventually into the hole after a tiny upward motion as it entered! I first started by drawing the sky background with the grass, then adding a hole into it as well. I added a flag and pole on separate layers, and then laid out the general path of how I wanted the ball to go. From there I added rough sketches on how the ball would move, and then added a outline for the ball, whi