Hierarchies hate me
I ended up saving two different versions of the pendulum assignment and HO BOY I hate both. And I am fairly certain the feeling is mutual.
The first version I make a set for all 3 joints on the pendulum and saved it to the shelf then animated using that first. Then I went back and tweaked each joint individually. The problem with this is I got kinda confused in the spaghetti mess that is the graph editor; I would switch from looking at ALL 3 to looking at one of them. And yeah, that was kinda a headache but it’s the one I ended up turning in.
The second version was starting with the top joint, then animating the second joint, then the last one. But it was too...separated? Like each one was too independent of the others and it was just too difficult to make them look like they moved together.
The one that moved most like the reference I looked up was the first version, so I ended up dumping the second one (partially out of frustration) and playblasted the first.
I’m definitely going to try and redo this one before the final. I’m just too attached to the cutesy little ball-fox that I animated.