Photoshop basic animation

Today, I've been learning how to animate frame by frame using photoshop. I started off by making a ball bounce simply using separate layers and then running them together. 

Next, using the stretch and squash technique that we learnt while making flipbooks on monday, I created and exaggerated ball bouncing in a more cartoon way. This means the impact when the ball hits the floor is shown and the ball squashes and bounces back, elongating and stretching as the ball falls/ rises.

Finally, I learnt how to animate a pendulum swinging, using arks similar to the ones used for the ball bouncing. 

Arks are used in animation to add realism to characters and objects moving, for example when a character walks, their arm swings (like a pendulum) in an ark and the head bobs up and down in an ark. This brings more life to the character instead of everything moving stiffly and robot-like.