then can you teach me the basics???HUH!? HUH?!

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Why do you always make posts like:

1. Learn the basics
2. It's shit
3. Beginners. Now.

?

It's because it's shit, they need to learn basics, and it be a waste of space if a shitty animation was posted in a new thread

@Kingsmash, can you look at tutorials? huh?!HUHMP?!

1-0 Pheonixslayer21 - Kingsmash

Here's a new anim of mine:

http://
spamtheweb.
com/ul/upload/090809/78997_Untitled-2.swf

Can't post links yet, so combine the sentances. (and yes, it IS Pivot. It got re-uploaded as a flash to increase FPS)

Please critique. Is it worthy of my own thread?

No. Sorry. You need to work more on stiffness and more realistic movements. A walk test and a jump test, and maybe a physics test, would probably help you improve at this juncture.

@Kingsmash:

In brief, here's the stuff you need to know:

Pivot Basics

1. To avoid stiffness, every joint should change in every frame. There are few exceptions, but you are allowed to have people standing still/dead.

2. Every movement is eased on some level. With a throw it will be vertically, with any other movement it will be in the direction the movement is going. You don't have to ease when someone hits something like a wall or the ground - if that happens it should be at maximum speed just before the impact and then come to a stop instantly or bounce. During a bounce (or upwards throw) it will leave the floor at maximum speed and then gradually slow from there.

3. Choppiness is bad. It's hard to give a precise definition of choppiness but you'll know it when you see it. To reduce it, reduce the spacing between frames and possibly up the frame rate. Easing also helps reduce choppiness because it can trick the eye into accepting heavy spacing.

4. Obey the laws of physics. The Newtonian laws of motion are the most important. Essentially, things don't just stop or change direction - if a guy is jumping through the air he cannot instantly lose all horizontal momentum and come back to the ground. Gravity is the other important one; it is covered by easing.

5. Sticks can only do what is anatomically possible. What this basically means is that when a stick lands from a jump it must absorb the shock or it's femur will go up through it's hips. Other important anatomical points are that the back shouldn't be over-bent and knees and elbows only go one way.

If you need more explanation, let me know.

O_o why is it so quiet >_< after my last comment it's been slow

Well, noones animating apperantly, so noone can show anything then :|

I've kind of quitted already, but that new guy, tallguy, maybe he posts something... And you can post something too y'know...

Animating is getting kind of boring, you know ?

Kind of, yeh.....

Whatever happened to Izacque?

You guys should try flash. When you're done, its much more rewarding. Just a suggestion.
Or possibly easytoon, or just another type of animation program. I can pm you a VERY good free, legal alternative to flash.

SToP SAYING WE SHOULD MOVE TO FLASH JUST BECAUSE YOU HATE PIV0T!

Are you serious? I'm trying to help you stay into animating and you try to start yet another flame war. I didn't say ONLY flash you ****ing idiot. Lrn2read. I said easytoon, flash or another animating program. HURRR ****ING DURR. Pivot isn't the only one in existence you ****ing stupid 10 year old runescape fag.

Actually, I think Flash is a lot better. (That's surprising !)
Currently I'm stuck at learning the replay button (AS3).

Quote from Avian

Actually, I think Flash is a lot better. (That's surprising !)
Currently I'm stuck at learning the replay button (AS3).

Well I'm not sure what it is for AS3. But for AS2, if your animation starts at the first frame or preloader or whatever, its:

on (release) {

	gotoAndPlay(1);



}

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Are you serious? I'm trying to help you stay into animating and you try to start yet another flame war. I didn't say ONLY flash you ****ing idiot. Lrn2read. I said easytoon, flash or another animating program. HURRR ****ING DURR. Pivot isn't the only one in existence you ****ing stupid 10 year old runescape fag.

But the fact that you already said Like 500 times that pivot sucks, and that we should move to flash, I don't believe you anymore when you say trying to HELP.