My project was a recreation of David Beckham's free kick against Greece in the 2001 World Cup Qualifiers. He scored the goal in the 93rd minute to send England to the World Cup Finals. In the scene, I set up David Beckham, the four players in the wall, and the goalie. The Greek players are blue (Greece), while David Beckham is white (England).
I used hierarchical modeling to position and animate the players in the scene. I rotated the players at the joints, all moving with respect to the hips and torso. The get the running and kicking animation I rotated the players hips and knees.
To get the movement of the ball to look like the actual free kick I gave the ball a kinematic equation for the movement along its x, y, and z axes.
