The chest you made works . Also, if you want to keep the head turning I suggest you look again closely to what I have done to the head!

Sorry, not much of an update, I might post more stuff today but:



Check out these four. They are almost identical, yet for every tiny change I have to go back and edit 13 frames! It takes not only 5 minutes each time that I edit 1 pixel, also it drains my energy. Should I just let go of minor errors and decide that it is not important enough? Of course I could fix the head first and then place it only once in the perfect world, but I keep seeing new things all of the time! Oh and these are the 4 versions I saved, I think there are around 8 different face+hair sets that I have used..
Boring work!

Also, I am going to put all different actions in one animation. Which means that I'll redo the broomstick, she will step with her left leg forward because the right one is still there from the throwing animation

CCCOMBO

some constructive crits and observations, that hair looks rather clumpy, like claymation. completely agree with ejay regarding the synchronised motion, and the moment I watched her watching her own rolling pin all I thought of was due to that distracted attention a fist flying into her face 

I was unconsiously waiting for someone to say something about the hair! I had been trying to draw like these pink roller things that make your hair go curly, which didn't work out, after which I figured that I could not draw hair at all. Then when I clicked around to create some random white circles on the grey area I had drawn it looked kinda okay (like now). Still I need to see some examples on how to do this better I guess. Hair always seems impossible to me and I like to go out of its way by just giving the whole thing one solid color..
Any explanations, examples or edits?

The eyes are back to normal (except that now they are blue), and I tried to make things less synchronised (shoes, body starts moving after pin & more unique frames). Improvement?


(do you prefer me to post them with grey BG or transparent?)

Hi guys

I am having some kind of fighter sprite moves in my mind but before I start animating I'd love to hear your opinions about what I have so far!



Oh and




Okay I have a question for the experienced animators here:
How do you keep all the stuff together that you animate? I mean I now already have a static file, an idle animation and an attack animation. I just changed the face a little in the idle one, now I have to update all the files! Probably by the time I have the 3rd animation done I see some flaws in the static file and want to change the clothes or whatever and then have to edit everything! And how do I keep the colors consistent?
I have once talked to some guy who just created one big loop with all the animations after each other ( http://alexhw.com/art/anim10.gif ) but I can not imagine I can then see if the loop connects well (when walking, idling etc).

I am working in graphicsgale, I prefer Grafx2 but it can not really animate.. So I am also not very familiar with the software that I am using..

Any ideas and solutions and experiences worth sharing?



Daniel