Shot at 2007-07-20

I've been playing a few MMOs in the past week or two, I'm going to animate some more again. I never did proper easing in my Pivot animations, so here's an easing test. Rate it on choppiness and easing.

easing was ok didnt see it being choppy(probaly just me) and the stick was stiff

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its my job to direct them


look at a god damn punching tutorial. Even stand up and punch mid air slowly if thats what it comes to (I actually learned my basic movements by doing that ._.

if you want the truth
i never looked at a god damn tut
i always looked at my sexy self and acted out the motions
then put it to pivot

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I like the blood but it doesn't seem realistic, its allot better than my blood though.


Working on the power behind my attacks. Should I keep going with the sword or cut it out and stop.

I think I found out what's up wit your attacks.
The attacker's back isn't bending enough
Your back is like 10degrees then another 10 at the joint in the middle
It should be more like 30degrees then another 15-20. maybe try that.

Kage: You don't have practically any easing.

when the dude's arm goes up, it goes like 3px, 3px ,3px, 4px, 4px, stop (or something along those lines.)
It should be 1px 1px 2px 4px 8px then backwards to stop.
The gun coming in was good, but the gun couldn't have forced the dude's arm to move THAT much (physics).

My basic suggestion: look at sum tuts. Leave weapons out and learn physics, easing, and smoothity. (I personally started out w/ easing and now moving on to physics.)

Edit: On another note kage, his mouth doesn't use proper easing >.>
If your using %age, it should prolly go somewhat like this (assuming you started at 50%) 51%, 52% 54% 58% etc.

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You don't have practically any easing.

when the dude's arm goes up, it goes like 3px, 3px ,3px, 4px, 4px, stop (or something along those lines.)
It should be 1px 1px 2px 4px 8px then backwards to stop.
The gun coming in was good, but the gun couldn't have forced the dude's arm to move THAT much (physics).

My basic suggestion: look at sum tuts. Leave weapons out and learn physics, easing, and smoothity. (I personally started out w/ easing and now moving on to physics.)

On another note kage, his mouth doesn't use proper easing >.>
If your using %age, it should prolly go somewhat like this (assuming you started at 50%) 51%, 52% 54% 58% etc.

Hmm. I actually made his arm movement speed rise then drop...so it definitely wasn't anything along the lines of 3px 3px 4px 4px, but yeah I should've done the 1-2-4-8px thing instead anyway.

I agree that his arm moved too much. I kept trying to position the arm in a certain place, but the movement kept turning out weird, so I just went with what you just saw. It could still look like he overdid telekenesis and pulled the gun too hard :D.

On his mouth I increased the size by 10% every time and moved it slightly, so yeah, 10% is too much.

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Hmm. I actually made his arm movement speed rise then drop...so it definitely wasn't anything along the lines of 3px 3px 4px 4px, but yeah I should've done the 1-2-4-8px thing instead anyway.

I agree that his arm moved too much. I kept trying to position the arm in a certain place, but the movement kept turning out weird, so I just went with what you just saw. It could still look like he overdid telekenesis and pulled the gun too hard :D.

On his mouth I increased the size by 10% every time and moved it slightly, so yeah, 10% is too much.

^^; I'm about to put an animation w/ a new stk. so C&C me when I post it. :P

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ok when ur comin down pull the front leg in then whip it back out real quick so it looks somewhat like this:

/ / /
/ \ l

thats REALLY. REALLY rough but i didnt feel like doin a piv. hope u kno wut i mean. thats what happens when u do a kick like that tho. or thats wut happened when i did it (lol yeah i try out all the moves i do to make em look as real as possible)

Ok, LTTC you keep acting like you know everything, and not to be mean but its really annoying. I don't like taking advice from animators at a lower rank than me so, thanks for the advice I guess but its not whats wrong.

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Ok, LTTC you keep acting like you know everything, and not to be mean but its really annoying. I don't like taking advice from animators at a lower rank than me so, thanks for the advice I guess but its not whats wrong.

W/e you're the one askin for input. I just gave it but w/e

Edit: here's my anim w/ the new stk. I like the stick but I dun think it's fo me.

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Did he cut his arm off or something cuz it just disapeared. You need to do just basics right now, no more blood or swords.

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Did he cut his arm off or something cuz it just disapeared. You need to do just basics right now, no more blood or swords.

if you look closely you will see his arm half on and off the sword

well you should had at least cut him in two.