Pendulum Animation

For this project we tried to find out how a pendulum works, and making things move in a consistent manner. We used a pinboard and vellum paper to be able to see what we did in the frame before and what we were going to do in the current frame. This is an example of Straight ahead action, or drawing an animation frame by frame from beginning to end, which is a useful technique in animation. After that we used the pinboards to make another straight ahead action animation. I drew a bird repeatedly falling on a dwarfs head, while the dwarf flinches every time the bird lands. It took a while but in the end the overall effect was nice and I learned how I could get a lot of drawings done in a short amount of time.