Pendulum Swing

 For this weeks animation task we created stop motion pendulum swings using string and plasticine. 

I had a few attempts

I am not sure why this one was exported upside down!

The key elements to a pendulum swing are timing and speed. Its important to get that sense of speed and timing to create a realistic feeling of a swing. For example , as the swing reaches the top it slows down, and then speeds up quite quickly as it falls. 

I think over my three attempts I have managed to capture the essence of the swing quite effectively, I could have improved this by taking a bit more time for each one and maybe making it longer so you could really see the speeding up and slowing down. It would have also been better if I had a fixed mount for my camera so that it didn't move at all, as this really let down a couple of these examples. 
Overall I think this was a success. 



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