Pendulum

After the ball bounce, we moved onto arcs and pendulums.

I created a stop motion of a pencil swinging in an arc.



Next, I tied a ball to a string and swung it like a pendulum. Using photoshop, I traced the movements of the ball and created a smooth animation of its movement.



After some peers reviews, I realise that the pencil does not need a frame of it straight up as it makes the movement clunky and reads as a ticking pencil rather than a swinging one. The fluidity of the movement is removed and it becomes mechanical.
I really like my second animation. I moved the placement of the string to make it more natural and used what I had learnt of squash and stretch to show speed and direction. The ball is only spherical at the top points of the pendulum.

My second attempt at a pendulum was much more successful. I remembered not to have a frame of it straight down and spherical as it would look static. I used the string to also show the bounce and swing of the ball. I think adding the hand that holds the string would improve the animation as it would show the swaying of the hand that swings the ball, emphasising the movement and grounding the string.