bouncing ball

Been playing round with Maya's dynamics engine which is a good way of animating moving objects. Instead of figuring out how an object will behave, you assign a force to it (in this case gravity) and the computer does all the rest.

What has this got to do with my composition? Well my final composition involves a spring (or helix as Maya likes to call it) swinging backwards and forwards, so i shall apply the dynamics engine in this way.

I've also learnt how to render and and batch capture the scene and also add a couple of lights - which will help the render sit realistically in the composition.