Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: coldmage on June 30, 2016, 05:56:58 pm

Title: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: coldmage on June 30, 2016, 05:56:58 pm

I am not the best at running animations, and I was wondering if anyone else could critique this running animation.

(http://i.imgur.com/7eropn8.gif)

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: MysteryMeat on July 01, 2016, 12:25:16 am

It looks more like he's doing a dance, honestly. I'd start over again, try to look at some guides on google for walk cycles, this one's a mainstay.
(http://www.angryanimator.com/tut/pic/002_walkcycle/wlk01.gif)

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: coldmage on July 01, 2016, 02:11:52 am

Thanks for the criticism! I made another, but I think it may be too similar to the previous one(ignore everything but the legs):

(http://i.imgur.com/kVOvjea.gif)

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: coldmage on July 01, 2016, 02:31:14 am

Added an extra frame to smooth it out.

(http://i.imgur.com/z1ocgBL.gif)

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: MysteryMeat on July 01, 2016, 04:11:24 am

Getting close! Arms move when we walk and run too, as it is this kind of just looks like an awkward shuffle.
Try to do study the guide more, you want two sets of up and down frames at minimum for basic walk cycles, you can do two sometimes but it winds up looking pretty awkward and stiff, earthbound and the original final fantasy are good examples of a two-frame cycle.

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: coldmage on July 01, 2016, 02:49:37 pm

Not sure if you meant the legs or arms, but I tried to add arms, however,it but seems off for some reason.

(http://i.imgur.com/OQrAmvu.gif)

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: coldmage on July 01, 2016, 03:03:16 pm

I also made a version without moving arms.


(http://i.imgur.com/X9UOCQ9.gif)

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: wzl on July 01, 2016, 03:20:28 pm

cute little guy. Love the bouncyness of it :D

The arms looked off because you only did half a walk cycle. You colored your legs differently, see how it jumps after one cycle?
To get a full cycle just duplicate your frames and swap fore and background (basically)
Then you can have the full arm swing motion too

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12237727/Art/wotp/coldmage_walk.gif)

In terms of readability, i bumped up the brightness a bunch. yours does currently look like a black sprite with brown hands and face.

edit: woe is me. i actually derped and the arms swing same as the legs. flip that around, or it might look derped :P

Title: Re: Running Animation[WIP]
Post by: coldmage on July 01, 2016, 04:24:28 pm

Thanks wzl, I forgot how arms follow the legs, and I think I got it here:


(http://i.imgur.com/Hpe8vpg.gif)