Flash! (ah-ah)

 Today, we were introduced to animating in Adobe Flash. As usual, we learnt the basics of using the program to animate while using some of the 12 principles of animation: Squash and stretch in the bouncing ball, and timing (and spacing) with the pendulum.

Animating the bouncing ball in Flash I actually found a lot harder than in any other program or animation method we've learnt to use so far. It just took a while to get my head around as I couldn't work out how to effectively squash and stretch the ball using just a few key frames, but I think it worked out alright.

Animating the pendulum in Flash was a lot easier, in my opinion. It was easy to make the ball and the line work together as one object and easy to create the pivot point. I even added an owl clock to the top of the pendulum and made the eyes move, just for fun as I had some time! I think it worked well.