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Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: g-c. on September 21, 2014, 06:01:31 pm

Title: Struggling with animation
Post by: g-c. on September 21, 2014, 06:01:31 pm

Hello guys !  :)

Slowy going back to pixel art and i'm concentrating on animation.
I'm making a female walk animation, and even if i like it, i still think they are some issues that need to be resolved.  :-\
I would like to hear your advices about this.

(http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/38/1411322456-walkcycletest.gif)

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: Manupix on September 21, 2014, 06:52:32 pm

Frame #5 (http://gif-explode.com/) should have max right leg extension, because it doesn't the step forward with that leg is short.
Also this is a bit fast; looks good otherwise.

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: michelcote on September 21, 2014, 06:53:28 pm

Slapped together an edit for you:
(http://i.imgur.com/AArPAEG.gif)
Moved the closest shoulder forward on stride for 2 frames, looks less stiff. I planted the sprite on the bottom of the image and noticed the feet seemed to slide along the floor, so I lifted the feet on the upsteps. I also swapped the furthest legs wholesale between frames 1 and 8. Slowed the animation down by increasing the delay by 1 fps per frame. The up & down bob wasn't consistent, so I fixed that too.
Something I didn't illustrate in my edit: the furthest arm's motion could match the other more closely.
Great job otherwise, the arm "breaks" look good too  :)

PS I can't seem to fix the transparency issue your image is having  :blind:

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: PixelPiledriver on September 21, 2014, 07:04:58 pm

The flashing backdrop isn't helping.
What software are you using?

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: michelcote on September 21, 2014, 07:14:44 pm

PPD: GraphicsGale. I had transparency checked on both the layer and frame property windows.

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: g-c. on September 21, 2014, 08:08:44 pm

I'm using the same : GraphicsGale but i don't knwo why it add a background on the first frame even when i set them all with transparency checked. Anyway thanks for the edit !

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: Probo on September 21, 2014, 08:39:08 pm

when i opened it the transparency for the first frame wasnt checked. also remember that the colour to be transparent has to be set per frame, and the first frame has a different colour background

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: g-c. on September 21, 2014, 08:43:57 pm

That's what i've done but still, the first frame doesn't have transparency.

I'll try to correct that in my next update.

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: Probo on September 21, 2014, 08:55:59 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/cjy69j0.gif)

hmm weird it worked for me, maybe your GG is bugged? got the latest version?

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: PixelPiledriver on September 21, 2014, 10:48:32 pm

Quote

when i opened it the transparency for the first frame wasnt checked. also remember that the colour to be transparent has to be set per frame, and the first frame has a different colour background

Here's a tip for controlling that.

(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/266/3/e/changetransparencyofmultipleframes_1_by_pixelpiledriver-d809nke.png)

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: Probo on September 21, 2014, 10:57:04 pm

cant see the image dude!

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: g-c. on September 22, 2014, 05:19:10 pm

Quote from: Probo

hmm weird it worked for me, maybe your GG is bugged? got the latest version?

I somehow managed to make that transparency work !
I just forgot that my GraphicsGale has more than 3 years and i hadn't updated it since  :P

Title: Re: Struggling with animation
Post by: michelcote on September 22, 2014, 06:13:36 pm

Ditto, I was running 1.9.something