Arks - Lamp character

For the second exercise, we were tasked to animate the lamp character to push the ball and have some follow through as it goes back to its original position. To make the lamp have a characteristic feel, I thought I should make it look down at the ball and then to see where it wants to hit it towards, which it then does and then sees where it’s gone as it goes back to a resting position. I feel like the ark that was created was well done as the lamp hits the ball, but I could have made it more round so that it doesn’t feel like it’s moving to a certain point and then changing directions. Then, the string on top of the head was okay up to the part near the end and I think it snapped backwards too much or came back up too quickly and could have been improved on by using an ease in or out effect. One thing I wanted to do was to animate the lamp base to move, as the rest of the body does, so that it isn’t so static. But, I was happy with the final animation overall and this has also taught me more about how to use arks within an animation more effectively.