Animation Lesson 01: Bouncing Ball

Animation Basics: Keyframing a bouncing ball

Using the Curve as a starting guide & created a parent group between the sphere & [squash] deformer

To make the process faster when keyframing, I added a set driven key for the sphere to stretch & squash accordingly whenever it bounced at certain frames

Better timing needs to be readjusted but there's a first time for everything