Conventions of Animation _ Slow in Slow out

The aim of this week's objective in the convention of animation class was to understand the theory of slow in & slow out .The reason for this exercise was to gain an understanding being the theory of an object's impact as it hits another object creating a chain reaction .

 The chain reaction will create a number of actions that will continue for a certain period of time.To understand the concept of slow in & slow out better many people have recreated two dimensional / three dimensional animations  showing their interpretations . But few of them have managed to replicate the correct reactions due to lack of observations / lack of video references .

The main problem that could occur whilst trying to conduct this particular mechanic of animation will be the fact that certain parts of the animation will appear to be jumpy. For an example one or two of the newton balls might appear to be out of sequence with the rest of the newton balls.

The solution to this problem is simply trial & error which may take a while if you are a beginner in animation. The other solution would be to watch videos of newton balls to observe their movements . Once you have managed to understand & recognise the technique of the physics of Newton's balls will you be able to replicate the same in two dimensional / three dimensional animation.

                                               

The first exercise was to animate a newton's ball swinging from side to side whilst taking two main factors into consideration . The two factors that is demonstrated in these two exercises are known as slow , slow out . The student who create this animation tried his best to create an animation of Newton's ball that would be similar to a real life version of Newton's ball .  

Althought the animation may seem okay it is still rather jumpy as it took many attempts to get the correct poses in each frame , the timing of the exchange from one frame to another . This was down to the research where the student look at reference videos from you tube on Newton's balls . Some would show the two middle balls moving with the reaction of the two end balls , some would show the two middle balls staying still. It was really down to the student's judgement , persistence of vision.