Advanced Character Animation (ACA) Week1

My first week back at uni went really well and i have some interesting modules this semester. One of them is advanced character animation. This week i had to do a series of short animations using the scene files provided to get myself used to maya and the graph edition.
The first animation i did was an arrow hitting its target with the arrow tail bending back and forth with the impact. the graph editor helped me create a smooth trajectory and the bend deformer helped with the bending animation.
The second animation was a soft ball hitting the target and getting squashed by the impact, this was acheived by scaling the ball on impact to make it flat.
The last animation was a swinging pendulum which was done using the graph editor and oscilating the animation with the infinity tool.
 
Hopefully this weekend i will be posting up ACAweek2 as well as giving an insight into my other modules. So stay tuned!