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Apr 1, 2010 2:01 AM #561835
Yay, 1st post back here.

@Teriyakid: Yeah, that jump is almost completely devoid of physics. When he's coming down, my suggestion would be to accelerate it more, have the guy drop into a real crouch as his knees absorb the shock, and heavyspace to a stop. Incredibly smooth, but not fluid. The way I think of fluidity is like smoothness, but transitioning between moves- one pose naturally flowing into the next. Make sense?

@Demonwings: Pretty good for your first. I can tell you know about easing, now you need to apply it to everything. The way you have people skidding to a stop like they were on ice is actually kind of opposite. The whole stick should still move, but gradually slower, with the feet staying in place unless he is taking a step. Your anims are also stiff. Think about how every part of the body would move during an action, not just one arm or leg.

And now, it's time for some of my own stuff. Just one anim for now. Pretty old, testing out Bolt's skew stick. Rank and CC?
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Apr 1, 2010 4:20 AM #561866
[video]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7156/learninghowtowalk.gif[/video] that is my best walk
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Apr 1, 2010 4:28 AM #561868
Please read some of the tutorials.
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Apr 1, 2010 4:52 AM #561877
[video]http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/126/betterwalk.gif[/video] ok on this one i tryed to follow zeds tuorial. I also did it in place i didnt move the animation because i think i should do that later on when i get a lil better or others wuold say alot better.
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Apr 1, 2010 6:25 AM #561890
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idk whether to thank you for the critisicm or feel rudley annoyed that i've heard it hundreds of times already. -_- I actually got a headache from reading that...

I think that you should invariably be satisfied, it's rare enough that I criticize a whole lot now a days. Considering I'm one of the last skilled pivot animators on this site and one of the two that actually criticizes at all. It's like being lost in the woods, and finding a dragon, but not only did the dragon appear it helped lead you to your goal.
Yes I give people headaches with my walls of text, that was a small one, be grateful that I wasn't in the mood for a frame by frame walk through of where you went wrong.
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Apr 1, 2010 7:02 AM #561905
Criticism is a good thing, if skilled animators points out your flaws. Then you can fix your flaws and improve on being an animator. I would love to have a wall of text that tells me what to work on if I don't know. It's alot better then just saying "It needs some work" or "that animation sucks".
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Apr 1, 2010 8:48 AM #561946
-Staring at ani's avatar-. Pretty sun.
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Apr 1, 2010 9:11 AM #561952
Thanks! :D
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Apr 1, 2010 10:12 AM #561958
Shiny sun. 0_0 (*Stares too long into the sun.*)
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Apr 1, 2010 10:43 AM #561962
Haha, yeah. THE SUN IS MESMERIZING...

2 more anims. Someone CC?
http://pivotup.com/files/6f2gz5hr.gif - Really nice effects, crappy movements.
http://pivotup.com/files/hjw0exus.gif - Some of my best animation ever.
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Apr 1, 2010 12:28 PM #561973
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/126/betterwalk.gif cc this plz
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Apr 1, 2010 12:40 PM #561975
It's much better then your first, but the legs are very stiff. I noticed you your images are very large, I suggest that you make them smaller so the images are less largely pixelish. Make your animations have a bit more flow and easing to them.
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Apr 1, 2010 12:44 PM #561977
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/19/walkingisfun.gif ok i tried a full body this time
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Apr 1, 2010 1:10 PM #561991
Your already showing improvement. Fix the frame when the figure suddenly twitches, or delete it.
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Apr 1, 2010 1:24 PM #561995
[video]http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/479/awsomewalk.gif[/video]i had to redo the whole thing cuz i forgot to save it as a .piv file, so here it is but my arms are very stiff and i dont know how to make unstiff [video]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/479/awsomewalk.gif[/video] i read zeds whole walking and easing tutorial so do you want me to work on my easing and then come back to walking or stay with trying to walk?[video]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/479/awsomewalk.gif[/video] ok i think i fixed it, lol now i think i fixed the leg
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