animated girl person

[Helm]

dark flesh shade, light flesh shade. Between them you have a medium buffer shade. It is 'hugging' the darker shades contours, following them exactly not easing the 'staircase' jaggies at all, but rather accentuating them. Banding.

[Zomby138]

i see, good, I get it, yes

[Gil]

Dragonrc: your edit is exactly the same as mine? What's the point?

I noticed the banding too. There's two options. Either you go with a soft-shadow, or you're AA-ing the light with the dark. In both cases you need to alter the medium shade. Helm's edit is a good example of AAing dark to light.

[Stwelin]

There is a need for more tension when she's in the backflip state and she sticks her sword in the ground. Maybe another keyframe with only slight movement, to show she is straining to pull off the rest of the move. In theory it would add a presence of gravity to the animation, though i am by no means a master of the animated gif.

+ framerate displays differently between mozilla and internet explorer, etc... so someone watching this in a different browser may be basing a critique on something they are viewing differently than you, in regards to the timing, anyway.

++ this reminds me of Blood : The Last Vampire.

[Nebopolassar]

If you would like to get advice on texturing, shading and whatnot, it might be better to post a still piece.  The piece you have here is for the most part simply an animation, so that's what people are focusing on.  Not that you hadn't figured that out for yourself, just sayin!    But that is a very nice animation. If a few issues could be remedied, it would look pretty dang top notch!

[Xion]

When the sword [sticks] in the ground, it doesn't rotate at all. Looks really weird, since the tip of the sword is essentially the pivot point for everything, the handle/hand being only the pivot point for the girl. Pretty awesome, though.

[Draco9898]

That's pretty insane for just an animation- what great work Maybe more contrast? I'm not sure if I have any right to be critiqueing as I'm not that great at all 

[dragonrc]

Dragonrc: your edit is exactly the same as mine? What's the point?

No it isn't, although it looks the same now. I don't know why but the framerate gets all messed up with this piece, I think it's because it's a big and long animation.
If you save the image you'll notice the difference, that worked fine with me.

[Gil]

If you would save mine, you'd see they're exactly the same. If yours is speeded up, so is mine, remember 

[uridicy]

That's a long animation.  I really think it looks cool when she flips back on her sword.  It seems like it might snap or at least bend in real life though.