This was the first practical task in the animation workshop, and I was really looking forward to it as it is something I have never done before. To begin with I had to draw out a path for my object to follow and add equal stops along it, so I knew when to take the photos. This meant that once the photos where sped up the object moved at a constant speed from start to end.
In the middle line, I placed the stops closer together and then wider until the halfway point where it levels out into equal gaps. So, whenever I sped up the photos, it would appear the object starts off slow, speeds up and then levels out to match the speed of the first line. For the final line, I placed the starting stops even closer together and the same at the end with the middle stops having larger gaps. Then once the images where edited, it would appear the object starts off slow, speeds through the middle and then slows back down towards the end. However, to make sure this worked out well I had to make sure all the lines had the same number of gaps and that the start, middle and end ones were all at the same point along their respective lines.
After completing the task, I decided to experiment with using more complex lines. I was able to use the techniques of creating fast and slow movement in the previous tasks, to make the movement seem realistic. For these lines, I found I had to include a lot more gaps compared to the straight lines to try and replicate how it would slow down and curve. Again, I had to make sure that the start, middle and end gap were aligned so that the movement would match up.