if you want urgency, try leaning her forward more. As it is, it looks like she's just kind of doing a dramatic dainty princess skip.Good point. I'll adress that! :D
Hey Weazel!That is so unbelievably adorable. I'm melting :D
Very inspirational (after all it got me to edit an entire animation)! Loving her look and colours.
Secretly I've wanted to animate a "girly" female character run for a while, so here goes:
(http://i.imgur.com/yk9w4Or.gif)
I've actually been watching girls as I run behind them [/supercreepy] to see how they run, and some of the more girly ones have noticeable inefficiencies in their technique.
Here are a few things they do:
- They twist their shoulders as they run (you should keep your shoulders square and swing your arms like pendulums) and sort of doggy-paddle with their arms? I don't really know what they're doing, but it looks something like how I've animated it. I'm sure you've seen it (they do it in anime a bit as well).
- They rotate their knees in a circular motion and throw their legs around their knees following the same motion. I don't even know how to describe it, and animating it was... tricky, but hopefully you've seen it. They also use this in anime often, so I'm clearly not the only one to notice.
I think this is because of the angle their bones have at the knee that gives them this more rotational movement, because you'll notice it on most girls and most guys will run with their knees always forward, pendulumy.- The back arch. Chests up and out, and then the lower back needs to pick up the slack and bends all concave-like. I assume this has to do with breasts. Either to show off, or because they don't have the proper support and running differently would cause them pain.
Then there's the hair...
There are several types of different hair bounces that I've found. Some sway left and right, some bounce only vertically, some splay out. It all depends on how they have their hair tied and their running motion.
I've gone with some sway and lots of bounce (assuming no hair tie, or at least a loose one), with hair that sticks together and flicks at the tip, but really you have so many choices.
I feel like the hair in that rework is a bit too flappy, looks more like a scarf. The original has more weight to it, feels more natural. I'd stick with that personally.