climbing

[toaster]

Hey,

I'm working on this climb cycle:

Could you give me some advise about animating his torso? Right now, only his arms and legs are moving.
Any other critics would be appreciated too.

Toaster

[toaster]

[pistachio]

Torso is completely static, and it's bugging me. You seem to have helped it slightly in the second edit, but it isn't by much.

How about making the torso go up slightly every time his arm grasps the surface, to make it look like he's actually forcing himself up, and has some weight/is affected by gravity? Say, up by two pixels, then down slowly(-er) while his other arm reaches for the pull?

It would be like this:

Near arm makes contact, up, slowly down while far arm makes contact, up, slowly down while near arm makes contact, repeat.

I don't know honestly, I might as well be saying it backwards. Basically I'd just like to see some more up/down movement.

[toaster]

Thank you for your reply pistachio. His shoulders are moving up a bit when the arms are touching the wall. Is this what you meant.
Old:

New:

Any better?

[Cilein]

I don't think so, look at the hips and shoulders, or the green torso area in general, it never moves its whole self, shift the whole torso down as weight falls on it and up as the man stretches up for the next grapple by moving that whole green area

[Candy Man Criminal]

every time a leg pushes up and the arm reaches the entire torso should move, too
and when the foot finally lands it should move down

[toaster]

You're right. This looks a lot better.
I made a quick edit:

I'll contiue this tomorow.

Toaster

[Decroded]

Yeah better. try making torso and head move up one pixel for the first arm frame, then another pixel for the second frame to make it smoother (repeat for both arms obviously).

[toaster]

 

[Candy Man Criminal]

loads better