My very first fighter sprite.

[Fry]

I was browsing Tsugumo's Tutorials the other day and was really impressed by all the fighter sprite content.  I also realized I had never actually tried making one, so here he is.  I call him Warrick.  I might polish this up and do a few more little animations for fun, it was a blast working on.   



I decided to make a portrait for him too... Choose yer fighter!

-Fry

[Gil]

Contrary to what Tsu says, you shouldn't make the feet end up in the same places, it's confusing to read...

Nice so far! More!

[ptoing]

Reminded me of the duder in the lower left. From an old educational cartoon series



What's with the strange aa on the boots, does not really make sense to me. And I agree that the leg positions should have a bit more variation in positioning to read better.

[Fry]

Haha, wow... That dude could kick Warrick's ass... educationally!

The boots have been a work in progress, I originally had them a black and white combo, which looked really distracting... I don't know why I left the lighter tones that were in there on the outline.  The whole thing needs an AA makeover once I get the chance... I'm getting pixel ADD though, instead of polishing the sprite off I had the urge to make a goofy portrait of his ugly mug instead.

I'll have to take a closer look at the leg positions and grab some more reference.  I based this off of a run cycle I had to do last semester, I had a few leg issues back then too.

-Fry

[Silver]

Reminded me of the duder in the lower left. From an old educational cartoon series



What's with the strange aa on the boots, does not really make sense to me. And I agree that the leg positions should have a bit more variation in positioning to read better.

wow that brings me back the memories.
Great charecter fry 

[Fool]

Nice character=) Rude and mean. Just like me=))

 Run is a mess though - try not to place feet and hands in the same spot where was another foot/hand  a moment ago - it'll prevents from heavy duty blinking effect.
Also two more frames will ease reading  - foot/hand traveled too fast from one upper point to anoter,  they're not making a complete path for the viewer, and simply replace each other. I could make an edit to illustrate it  but it's going to be - and i mean it - very rough, i don't have a right tool on this computer. Let me know if you need one.=)

[Fry]

I would really appreciate it if you could do a rough edit Fool, I really dig your animations and i'm sure I could learn a lot. 

I'm pretty sure I understand what is wrong with it from what you said, but I think I could learn a lot more by seeing how you would go about fixing it.

Thanks,

-Fry

[Fool]

Ok, here is an edit (rough, as I promise=)) and perhaps required major cleaning before the final judgment) but here it is:


The color dots mean if you plan your spacing right you should be able to see it's path without jumping/blinking. Same is true for each joint/end point.
In this edit some ghosts parts still appears, but graphicsgale is a disaster for me -  use my old notebook (133 mhz, 32 mem - cant even say how fast he's running in fact.=))

Also, on aggressive run like that - wide travel path - you might consider  adding another pair of frames and lower delay time to keep overall speed.=)

[Fry]

Awesome! thanks Fool.  The legs are a huge noticeable improvement and don't look like they are just randomly flailing back and forth.  The arm movement looks a little less frantic then I had originally intended, but it also looks like a more realistic pace and the lack of major ghosting sure is nice.  I'm going do do some major revisions based on your edit and hopefully have a clean and polished run cycle later today.

I think i'm also gonna work on a a battle stance animation, just cause it sounds fun.    

Thanks so much for the edit Fool. 

-Fry

[Fool]

No biggy, it was sort of educational for me too=)
Talking of which  a few sudggestion on light source for the  portrait as well.