run cycle animation

[Mathcong]

Howdy,

Its been a while since i last did pixelart and im looking to improve this run cycle:



the character is supposed to be leaning forward a bit.

[32]

The animation is looking really nice and smooth! Great work

My primary concern would be that it looks more like a power walk than a run. If you're wanting it to feel more like a run the defining difference is with a run you should have at least 1 frame per step with both feet off the ground.

The other thing I'd urge you to think about is timing. Right now the timing is fairly even, there's a similar amount of space between the feet/hands on every frame. If you want to get it looking a bit more punchy think about playing with a pendulum type timing where the hands and feet spend most of their time at the extremes and quickly pass through the middle.

Keep it up 

[Mathcong]

thanks for the great tips 32,

i guess i just think too rationally about animation, like
"this is how arms move, so draw em like that".

hopefully it improved a bit:

[Mathcong]

smoothed out the animation a bit and added a sword,

should the sword bounce on impact? 

without bounce:


with bounce:

[MysteryMeat]

I'd have it rotate slightly with the bounce at the furthest extreme of the motion, just one pixel motion

[Zanorin]

You should look into subpixel animation for animating the sword in a subtle way

[daramon]

I'm having a touch of difficulty separating the front and rear limbs visually. The classic way to fix that is to use a slightly darker shade for the arm and the leg when they're behind the body. That may not fit your style though.

[Mathcong]

did some (hopefully subtle) animation:

You should look into subpixel animation for animating the sword in a subtle way

had to search it up, but im not quite sure how i would apply it on this small sprite,

maybe you could modify my sprite to show me?

I'm having a touch of difficulty separating the front and rear limbs visually. The classic way to fix that is to use a slightly darker shade for the arm and the leg when they're behind the body. That may not fit your style though.

i'll keep that in mind when i start adding color, and maybe some more shades, thx

[Nives]

Maybe try bouncing the head a little bit.  Just have it move up and down 1 frame delayed from the body.  It may or may not look good, but I usually like that look.

[Vinik]

I am not great at anatomy analysis but It feels like the arms are a little too short/stubby for him, which might be a stylistic choice, but maybe not. Nothing to add to the animation, I like it a lot