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The first video with just one ball bouncing is pretty rough; learning how to use the graph editor before moving on to the other scenes. There is some very slight squashing and stretching, but it may be hard to see. The graph editor was mostly used for moving keyframes and adjusting timing here.

With the second ball, I played more with the curve handles and finer adjustments/easing for the bounce motion, but didn’t do the squash/stretch here.

The third ball incorporated squash/stretch (possibly a bit exaggerated) and learning how to break and weight tangents in the graph editor…really giving a much better control over the motion and making keyframing seem much less painful than I’d expected. Hurrah for the graph editor!

(In retrospect, the shadows might be a bit distracting, though. So much for trying to be fancy.)

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