Animating a pendulum!

So when we recived this task, our teacher posted this amazing youtube tutorial from Keith Lango. These changed how I see overlapping when animating.
Here is the tutorials:

For the animators out there, I really recommend seeing all three. For the non animating people, the first part pretty much sums up overlapping and followtrough.

These are the animation principles I used when animating this piece:

-Timing
-Overlapping
-Followtrough
-Ease in & out

When animating a pendulum, you will be suprised by how automatic the animating will go. Once you have placed the first pendulum swing, and decided on if it is a heavy or light ball at the end. The rest will kinda fall into place naturally.

That is it for now, but the next assignement we got will combine the bouncing ball and pendulum animations into "Ball with Tail" task. Here we will also try to give the animation some personality.

Stay tuned for more.

Are they done?

So these are the two versions of my animation I will probably turn in at end of this module.
I may have to pick them back up again, based on feedback from class and teachers. But I have a good feeling.

Thank you for watching and reading so far. Keep comming back and you will hopefully not be disapointed.

Where and what?

So some of you may wonder where I get my help from when animating the Bouncing Balls and Pendulum. I am using the book The Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams. It has some great illustrations in it showing how a ball bounces for example. Check it out, I highly recommend it!

Bye bye.

WIP Pendulum 2

Hello again.
So I think I am almost done with the pendulum task. I just need some more feedback on my timing at Thuesday, then I'll do the finishing touches before this blogg is being marked.

See you later.

WIP Pendulum 1

This is my first draft of the pendelum task. I will hopefully get some feedback on thuesday.
I have done this task before, but it's been about 3 years since. So it feels good to start at the basics again.
It is a relative easy task, but it teaches you so much when it comes to overlapping and ease in and out.

Now to shoot my reference footage for my Bouncing Balls assignment.
Cya later.