So I worked one at a time, bouncing balloons of the walls and onto other walls. To start with I did a 2 balloon loop. This meant having balloon 1 end in the exact same place that balloon 2 started from, and balloon 2 would end where the 1st started.
However as I went on, this became much more complex to comprehend. As I created looped involving many more balloons, which then bounced off of other in midair, I had to plan much more meticulously where the balloons were going. There is a loop of 4 balloons which go around in the middle in a very complex loop. If you follow 1 of these balloons around, it actually takes 4 loops of the whole clip for it to end in the place it started, however there is also always another balloon starting in that same place on the first frame of every loop. So there are kind of 4 versions of the life of one balloon loop happening at once. This was what was getting very confusing. I was taking many notes while going through this process, trying to keep it all straight in my head.
Eventually, when happy with the animation, I started on rendering. I started with a AIStandardSurface balloon preset, however it wasn't giving me the translucency and light glowing through that I wanted. After a lot of fiddling with more presets and tweaking the settings a lot, I came up with something I was really happy with. It is actually somewhere in between balloon and glass materials, but it gives me a light glow on the walls and floor that I am really happy with.
After 9 computers rendering simultaneously overnight... this was the final result. I am very happy with it, and excited to play with more lighting and materials in my final film project.
https://vimeo.com/326158442
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