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Offline Serge Chrono

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Some advice about animations

on: December 04, 2016, 10:10:53 pm
Hi there, everyone.

I'm trying to make some animations for this little guy here:







And that's what I've got til now. Two run cycles and one walk cycle. I'd like some tips about how to  make a jump and an attack animation, if possible.

Thanks a lot.
« Last Edit: December 06, 2016, 12:30:11 am by Serge Chrono »

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Re: Some avice about animations

Reply #1 on: December 05, 2016, 08:52:49 am
I'd say that bottom one would work better as a walk cycle, just reduce how far the arms go!
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Re: Some avice about animations

Reply #2 on: December 05, 2016, 03:36:53 pm
I'd say that bottom one would work better as a walk cycle, just reduce how far the arms go!
Thanks. The first and second ones are run cycles. I kinda mimicked the movement of the arms in the walk cycle, maybe that's why they reach too far.

What about attacking and jumping, would you have a good reference for those?
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Re: Some avice about animations

Reply #3 on: December 05, 2016, 10:28:46 pm
I've changed the movement of the arms, is it better now?

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Re: Some avice about animations

Reply #4 on: December 05, 2016, 11:15:40 pm
Close! I did some minor tweaks here, the overall motions are good but the arm needed a slight bit of tweaking (notably, I removed a pixel on the shoulder to imply rotation) and I extended the back leg out more on the forward-swing so it better matched the foreground leg!


(I also resized it to original resolution, pixelation has a script in play that allows you to click on images to resize them without loss in quality, posting at original resolution makes it easier to do tweaks like this for illustrative purposes!)
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Re: Some avice about animations

Reply #5 on: December 06, 2016, 12:13:25 am
Close! I did some minor tweaks here, the overall motions are good but the arm needed a slight bit of tweaking (notably, I removed a pixel on the shoulder to imply rotation) and I extended the back leg out more on the forward-swing so it better matched the foreground leg!


(I also resized it to original resolution, pixelation has a script in play that allows you to click on images to resize them without loss in quality, posting at original resolution makes it easier to do tweaks like this for illustrative purposes!)

Thanks a lot, man!  ;D

I have made a jump cycle now, I'd appreciate some feedback. :)