his week’s class was entirely dedicated to reviews and feedback from our corrected Pendulum and our tail assignment.
For the Pendulum, I improved the timing and ‘bending’ of the elements, as well as used the offset trick in the graph editor. However, I did something wrong in the editor since it definitely broke down, but in a weird way, including having the movement from left to right before it should have happened. I checked and redid the graph again from scratch, and saw I had moved the graph to the wrong position.
As for the tail assignment, the tail exercise was good and sound, and the drawn plan as well, but when I did the drawn animation, I lost the sense of movement when the tail was falling back to the floor. Nonetheless, I surprisingly animated well in Maya. The head (bouncing ball) was perfect, and there are some tweaks in the tail to make, but it was a really positive outcome.
Here is my updated version: