12 Principles of Animation: Slow In + Slow Out and Timing

The purpose of this session was to see the difference between time and speed in animation.

Speed in animation all depends how the frames are spaced, at either end the frames are very very close together with tiny spacing between this makes the circle travel slowly. In the middle the frames are further apart, this makes the circle travel faster. This principle of animation is called 'Slow In and Slow Out'. This principle can be applied to things like a swing or a pendulum on a granddad clock.

Pendulum

Pendulum Frames as Onion Skins