Chain Reaction

Here is the ultimate video of my chain reaction:

Here is the sketch of my designing process:

In short, I want to include a seesaw, a dominom. Sliding, bouncing and friction will all be considered. I also want to focus more on the movement of the camera so that the viewers can feel immersed in this video.

Here are the producing process:

At first, what came to my mind was creating two sticks that looks like chopsticks. And then the ball dropped on the “chopsticks” so that it would go to the correct path to hit the dominoes.

Later, I found that dropping the ball from the sky without any force or physical designs was too weird, so I made a jumping platform and put the ball on it.

Also, I used cubes with different shapes to create a seesaw. The expected effect was the second ball would jump high when the first ball reached the seesaw. Then it will land on the “chopsticks”.

While testing, I realized that if I had designed the movement trajectory very precisely, using only one cylinder was enough. So I kept trying and deleted the other cylinder. 

At last, it was time to add textures and camera movements!