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One of the fundamentals of animation is learning how to animate a bouncing ball. In this quick tutorial, you'll learn some basic principles of timeline manipulation to help you produce a more realistic ball bounce.

You'll quickly model, texture and light a scene to put your bouncy ball in. Then you'll learn how to animate and keyframe a ball and edit its animation tracks in the timeline.

Next, you'll look at adjusting keyframe interpolation using the tangent handles and how to break those tangents so that you have control over the incoming and outgoing curves for your keyframes.

Note: See also our related Cinema 4D tutorial, How To Adjust Keyframe Interpolation:
https://vimeo.com/213520779

Cinema 4D is 3D animation software that is used for all kinds of artwork. It is regarded as one of the easiest to use professional 3D applications that can handle any 3D task.