Heres my first animation.
I was just playing around with some new textures and the extrude faces only tool then i decided to do this. Hope you like.
http://www.vizionary.org/~gryphon/gallery/albums/Gryphons-Blender-Works-In-Progress/0001_0075.avi
It is of 3 balls bouncing.
I would greatly appreciate C&C on my animation so please watch it and comment.
I’m downloading so I’ll tell you in a second.
if its only 75 frames though, it really shouldn’t be 8.3 mb, thats way too big esepcially at 30 kb/s. IT should definitely be under a megabyte. how are you compressing these?
Edit:
okay, just watched it.
its all right but doesn’t really feel like balls bouncing. a few things could make it much better, The balls shouldn’t “ease in” to the ground. you could probably change this through the IPO editor. they should hit the cround and come back up much more abruptly then the do now.
also, they fall much too slowly for earth gravity. objects fall about 4.9 meters in the first second. A little bit of squach and stretch wouldn’t hurt either.
good start!
of course, my first animation was a gravity defying ball moving horizontally across the screen so 
I didnt compress it. I didnt think it would be that big.
just in case you didn’t see it, I put edited my post above with the comment while ago.
Thank you. I didnt see the edit.
I noticed that they were going slow. I kinda did it on purpose so that I could watch them but after I was finished I didnt know how to speed them up. Also do you know of any tuts on how to use the IPO editor?
no tuts I know of specifically for the IPO editor (not saying there aren’t any).
I’m not sure that the whole animation needs to be sped up so much as the hitting the ground motion needs to be made less “soft.” A ball isn’t going to slow down before hitting the ground. It will slow down when reaching the apex of its bounce.
why don’t you try this though.
split the view so that the 3d view takes about 2/3 of the screen and the IPO window the other 1/3. trying to switch between the two gets to be a pain really fast and you don’t need more than 1/3 of the screen for the editor usually.
On the header, there should be a pull-up window with the IPO types. make sure this is set the Object. The curves with keyframes should have colored boxes next to them on the right bar.
You’re going to want to edit the IPO “control points” so select the ball and go to the editor. find the relevant curves (LocZ in this case), select them, and press tab to acces the control points. IPO curves act pretty much like bezier curves, with handles and such.
go to the keyframe where the ball hits the ground, there should be a coresponding handle on the curve. You want to make the curve steeper where it hits the ground. You can either make the handle a vector handle (Vkey), or make it a free handle (Hkey I think) and manually move the handle edges). This will make the hit and rebound motion faster.
you can do the opposite thing to the “hold” at the top of the bounce if want as well, though you may not need to.
that should be enough to get started with the IPO editor (if my directions were unclear, just tell me)
for squash and stretch, there should be a bunch of tutorials if you search, either here or on google.
no tuts I know of specifically for the IPO editor (not saying there aren’t any).
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Animation.416.0.html
The best one I’ve seen. 
You’ll need a BitTorrent client. Azureus works well.
Oh, and about an hour to learn everything you ever wanted to know about IPO’s
Thank you Fly3d. Ill start working on those after work. Those and zdk1’s tips should help me greatly improve my animation.