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Tennis Serve

I was motivated to do a bit of tennis-related animation after the Australian Open earlier this year, the super-slow motion replays they had were great for analysing motion :)



Update:
Now with lighting and sound!


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9 Thoughts on “Tennis Serve”

  1. March 23rd, 2007 at 5:46 am

    Hey this one looks really Great !
    I did one, too. It in 2D actually, but can take a look at it if you like ! http://www.vimeo.com/clip:66564

    —Victor Ens
  2. March 23rd, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    Hey Victor, thanks man! Your hand-drawn serve looks just awesome, great stuff!

    —andy
  3. March 24th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    REal nice animation!!

    —alina
  4. March 24th, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Thanks Alina!

    —andy
  5. March 26th, 2007 at 4:07 am

    Really nice work.

    —joto
  6. March 27th, 2007 at 10:32 am

    Nice work. Hey what happened after the serve that made him react like that?

    —R.Dress
  7. March 27th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Thanks Jody and Robert! I’ve still got to add sound to the animation when it’s properly rendered for the idea to fully come across - there’ll be a thud and collapse of someone off-screen that he has apparently knocked out. I’ll try and post the final edit soon :)

    —andy
  8. March 30th, 2007 at 4:12 am

    hehe thats really funny!

    —Skim
  9. April 10th, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Lovely obeservation of movent! Way to carry it through to your animation!!!

    —Chris Chua