Motionless but moving

I decided to go a different way with the blog. Instead of doing a boring post for each week I lived here, I'm going to do some big and exciting* posts about what I did during the whole -not quite finished- study block with each subject. *disclaimer: adjectives might not be completely true The first one I decided to talk about is stop-motion. Why did I choose it? It's the one that makes me really frustrated. Our very first exercise was very basic: we needed to make two pendulums. One needed to swing free and the other one needed to be mechanical / clock-like. This is my attempt at both: Guessed which one is which? Neither did my teacher, they both look like mechanical pendulums. But it was my first attempt at the frustrating art of stop-motion, so it didn't go too bad. Our second task went slightly better. We had to animate a heavy ball falling to the ground and a baloon. It was way less frustrating for me, and actually kind of fun! ...