We were given a small task to create a hand drawn pendulum that swayed back and forth across on a 2 sec time scope, so 12 frames a second, one swing per second, so that our pendulum is a ticking clock. We used animation paper and light boxes in order to create the animation, using three types of pencils to show what was what in the process. the red pencil was for the key frames, the darker blue was for the in-between frames and the lighter blue was for arcs and stuff that won't be animated.
The above is my first attempt, it has quite a violent swing which led to an inconsistent flow in which the pendulum quickly sped up as it reached the bottom in an unnatural manner it also resulted in the animation having only 24 frames and not 25 which was what we were required, this caused the pendulum to be out of sync with a ticking clock.
this is my second attempt, i relaxed the swing so that it would be easier to time and i worked with a much easier process of pose to pose starting with the starting pose the midway pose where the pendulum was at the bottom of the swing and when it was at the top of the swing, then added the in-betweens, to create the swinging pendulum, this time it used 25 frames (originally id added one extra frame between 13 and 14 resulting in 26 frames but after removing the 26th frame by moving all the frames along one coming to the right amount). This pendulum while better than my previous one was a bit more mechanical in motion when it came to its swing but it still showed the gradual slow in and slow out of the animation.
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