Beginners, post your Pivot animations here.

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Sep 22, 2008 10:17 AM #259194
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another anims
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can anyone give C&C please?
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Sep 22, 2008 3:17 PM #259286
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I was bored. Physics kind of suck. Completely random.

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Smooth :o
Its cuwll
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Sep 23, 2008 2:00 AM #259639
Curse these uploading websites.

Edit.
Got it finally.
My nooby animation.
Woot.
http://uploaded.pivothost.org/Pnuts/The_Xiao_Xiao8hmg.gif
If you don't like it, you might as well kill yourself now, for I am going to make more.

BTW, band it, I liked them, but you could'a looped the first one.
Lol, but what do I know?
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Sep 23, 2008 4:30 AM #259737
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Curse these uploading websites.

Edit.
Got it finally.
My nooby animation.
Woot.
http://uploaded.pivothost.org/Pnuts/The_Xiao_Xiao8hmg.gif
If you don't like it, you might as well kill yourself now, for I am going to make more.

BTW, band it, I liked them, but you could'a looped the first one.
Lol, but what do I know?


good job, i liked the boss fight and good use of tremors.

aside from what you can say about every begginer animation (practice, ease, practice, read tuts, practice) there is a technical issue.

when the guys fade out and blur they shouldnt be grey if they are green orange brown and blue...use lighter shades of those colours instead (define custom colours option)
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Sep 23, 2008 2:25 PM #259967
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can anyone give C&C please?


why there is no one that give me comments?
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Sep 23, 2008 9:56 PM #260244
NeCrOdE, that is a lazyness issue, not a technical issue. XP
But I see what you mean, I hacked into my school system today and got past the block, and showed mah friends this, and they didn't believe I made it. XD
I'll take it as a complement.

Thanks or the C&C.
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Sep 23, 2008 9:58 PM #260246
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I say it's ok, the first jump looks like he didn't do much though, you can clearly see a bounce on th second one, but he just leans back and lifts his leg on the first one.
Edit* Overall I liked it a lot XP.


Band it...
Oh and, it was smooth looking to me, way smoother than mine.
Like, yours is as smooth as the wind, and mine is as choppy as a lumberjack.

Sorry for double post.

Edit* I redid the ending of the boss fight on mine, for the third time actually. (explanation for the puase in mid-battle.) This time the ending is a little better, but I got tired of making the black one run, so I faded him out.
Also, on the editted part, I took NeCrOdE's advice and changed his...stuff, but now it looks out of place, becuase the rest is still Blue>gray>light gray.
Oh well. http://uploaded.pivothost.org/Pnuts/The_Xiao_Xiao5i56.gif
Oh! And NeCrOde, the original reason of the fade outs wasn't to get rid of the bodies, but gray was meant to mean dying, and light gray means dead, I will use that from now on, but the shurikens killed them way too fast to use it properly here.
Last thing, there is no "brown one" he is "burgandy". Get it straight. But I guess I would have let "firebrick" go.
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Sep 24, 2008 2:45 AM #260435
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Band it...
Oh and, it was smooth looking to me, way smoother than mine.
Like, yours is as smooth as the wind, and mine is as choppy as a lumberjack.

Sorry for double post.

Edit* I redid the ending of the boss fight on mine, for the third time actually. (explanation for the puase in mid-battle.) This time the ending is a little better, but I got tired of making the black one run, so I faded him out.
Also, on the editted part, I took NeCrOdE's advice and changed his...stuff, but now it looks out of place, becuase the rest is still Blue>gray>light gray.
Oh well. http://uploaded.pivothost.org/Pnuts/The_Xiao_Xiao5i56.gif
Oh! And NeCrOde, the original reason of the fade outs wasn't to get rid of the bodies, but gray was meant to mean dying, and light gray means dead, I will use that from now on, but the shurikens killed them way too fast to use it properly here.
Last thing, there is no "brown one" he is "burgandy". Get it straight. But I guess I would have let "firebrick" go.


Ok it's an improvement. i guess the technical issues aren't that important; it's more important to keep practicing your movements. It's not important right now but here is a list of common ways to convey death:

-graphic violence (doesn't have to be over the top like decapitation or ripping off limbs; a few blood spurts or a cinder block will do)

-disintegration (via energy beam or explosion) you can also use fire, enviromental hazourds (like pools of acid), or giant fans, it goes without saying that the first two are the most humane however....

-a situation that removes the doomed from the field of view (falling off a cliff, run over by a tank. etc. etc.)

-creative/cartoony effects. (i have no examples for this)

as long as you are always patient and take your time animating you can think of lots of ways to make an animation more entertaining (it doesn't have to be violent though).

edit: even if you didn't use the correct colours for the fade outs you should of used it for the blurs (when the boss is moving). i know it's annoying going back and editing but that is why we make tests.
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Sep 24, 2008 1:05 PM #260661
I haven't been posting and animating for a while so heres my comeback anim it may suck so tips and advice are accepted
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Sep 24, 2008 11:08 PM #261004
Thanks for the great advice NeCrOdE. XP

I have been doing tests on blood, I mad mayb ten or so animations focusing on it, next animation I post will be more life-like. If they are just un-concious there is a chance I could decide to make them get back up, so I probably won't get rid of some of the bodies.

Megaanims, I thought they were really smooth and nice. On the punch th only thing I can say about it is that is looks like he is stepping with his heels, he has feet but he isn't moivng them, just his legs.
I have tried walking around on my heels with my toes pointed up before, and it was uncomfortable. Also... is his arm straight at the immediate end of the punch? I loved them both besides those two things.
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Sep 25, 2008 2:19 AM #261085
@ megaanims

you know how to do basic movements but they were very choppy and i see some figets. just work on easing and get to know which body parts move at the right time. (like when he is doing the backflip put him standing relitively straight, crouch legs bend back and then make arms swing with the motion and back arch as he lifts up.)
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Sep 25, 2008 1:54 PM #261438
what this one guys took me a hour
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Sep 25, 2008 1:55 PM #261439
well...
sorry, not sooo gooood...sorry
but i love the end...
A N I M S..
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Sep 25, 2008 10:24 PM #261703
lawl look at what I just made cuz i was bored
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i rly dont know what the point of it is but i just wanted to finish it someway lol
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Sep 26, 2008 11:17 PM #262488
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lawl look at what I just made cuz i was bored
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i rly dont know what the point of it is but i just wanted to finish it someway lol

lol funneh and creative:Happy: