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!

These are my attempts:

I think you can guess in this case which one is which.

After this we began using puppets. I had fun at first... but I'm going to talk about this a different post.

Not the next one, I'm going to talk about 2D in that one.

Thank you, see you soon.

PS. Sorry for the quality of the images, but it's just practice and how it looked didn't matter quite as much as how it moved.