Follow through and Overlapping action - Hammer

This week, we were looking at follow through and overlapping action within an animation and this exercise required me to animate a hammer swinging from one side to another. In this exercise, I started off with a good-looking animation for the hammer and the spring on the top of it, but I had to change a few things around for it to be looped and for the timing to look right. Once I got the right look I wanted, I just ended up tweaking the graph editor to allow the spring/ hammer to have the right follow through and for the overlapping action. I am proud of the work I have made due to the spring following the force of the hammer as it swings to the other side and the overlapping bounce that’s caused by the swing too. Overall, I think that I have successfully completed the task very well according to the animation principles we were looking at and if I was to do it again, I would probably increase the timing a little bit so that the viewer can catch the motion of the hammer as it swings.