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I'm almost at 8,000 :/

Beat that.

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I am so close to writing a wall of text of rage at you. You don't have to try and be superior to everyone you insecure elitist fuck.

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I'm sorry, what?
Since when does post count mean anything? I got a serious lawl :( I'm sorry.

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i know i dont have one, im just trying to get ideas and tips so i can build one

i know i have a bad anatomy, for instance i cant draw a hand because im not a good artist, which is why i use the line tool the majority of the time

this run sequence is actually just a quick short screen run through pulled directly out of a project im workin on for the sound competition. the arms i didnt move cuz i was lazy but the legs were bad because i didnt know how to do it, like i knew how fast i wanted him to run through but when i had the legs cross it looked weird

thats another question i had, whats a good framerate, because i have trouble figuring out how many frames should be used for certain actions

Basic hand anatomy. Every finger has three joints except for your thumb. It has a third joint, but it is within your palm. Your palm is like a square with a trianlge top and four joints connected to it. Two joints on each side of the triangle.

Hands are hard to draw. They take time.


Your basic leg movements when running.
There will always be a frame where the legs and arms intersect. If not, it's going to look odd.

http://www.truploader.com/view/989232
A quick example of a good run with an intersection, and a bad one.
The bad one is horribly looped and none of the limbs have any momentum or force.

The good one still has a lot of problems. Such as the back leg just hanging out there with its stiff self.

Work on easing as well.
Which is drawing an object on frame 1, and on frame two, you highlight it, move it 2 spaces in a direction with the arrow keys, and on frame 3, you move it four spaces in the same direction, and on frame 4 you move it 7 spaces in one direction, etc. It builds up to a maximum speed and eases out when the movement is ending. That way the anticipation is able to carry over. Keep in mind that momentum will be lost once an object connects to another object.

Well if he was intermediate and made this, why would I want to criticize it when he can apparently do better? If he managed to make mid intermediate then he should know how to improve his animations.

I would much rather come back knowing how good I was, but post a crappy animation over craving criticism from people that don't know what they're talking about.

Let's take your post for example. The guy bends his legs for the jump, but he doesn't bend them enough. There isn't enough anticipation for the movement he did. He should've fallen backwards and off the cliff instead of doing a backflip, but you wouldn't know something like that.

I'm the kind of asshole that goes out of my way to make visual examples of peoples problems so it's easier to understand, rather than letting them try to figure out what I said. I'm also the kind of asshole that pm's people to help explain shit into further detail that way we don't have a billion posts in a thread. And I'm also the kind of asshole that adds people on msn to help them out quicker and more efficiently than taking time to post on the forum.

Anywho, back to Mr guy Mapex dewd.
Your problem is that you're animating these weird as shit movements and stopping the animation for some reason. The whole pause/play effect isn't good at all. Don't use it, ever.

My particular style of easing consists of 1 frame of moving one or two pixels, then about 4-5 pixels, and after that there will be a gradual increase of pixels for about 3 or 4 frames. It doesn't take 6 frames to ease into a movement, humans don't move that slowly. The only time you want to use a lot of easing (5-12 frames) is when easing out into a movement that requires a lot of anticipation. Such as a run going to a crouch which will turn into a flip kick.

Your animation was a bit strange in how you eased into your movements.
Maybe it was the kind of stick figure, idk. It didn't look that good.

If I were you, I'd make an animation of simple, basic movements. Such as a walk that build into a run which ends with a jump that turns into a flip. You will be back up to par if you animate that.

About flash-
You don't have to be able to redraw that well, plus the more you do it, the better/faster you get at it. If you don't want to buy a tablet, just use the line tool. Especially for stick figures. If you were serious about animating and wanted to do full body, that's where you're going to want a tablet, other wise, line tool is just fine. I tend to like more animations done with the line tool than I do brush tool. It's a lot cleaner and gives a more serious feel to the animation. Depending on how you go about animating it.

If you're trying to be confusing, then you're retarded.
The most that you could say is that I made a post about the faggot post he made about foshizzle wanting to make a post to help him with flash :/

>_>
Since when has the maturity rate in the forum dropped?

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You have no style. Stop using the word all together. The community will recognize when you make a style. That's normally what happens. This one is completely different than the other crap you made.

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Movements were gay and the motion lines made me ****ing lawl.

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I don't feel like criticizing if you didn't work that hard on it :L You love F6 lol

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lol there you go with that word again. Shut up Mr. Zerogravity.

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Tork, why do you come into a thread and post about another animation? Shut the **** up and get the **** out please =D

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Looks like you are capable of being a good member

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Seriously? Let me go copy+paste, ill brb.

Two threads down-


Sure everything was God awful about the animations, but I didn't rudely say "They ****ing suck, I'll criticize when you get better".
You have it all backwards, my good sir. I'm only a dick to those that I ****ing hate :) Therefore they get terrible criticism. It doesn't hurt me at all to tell someone that they suck and need to work on everything.

http://www.stickpageportal.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1656609&postcount=7
Helping Vile make a game.

Pivot Aniamtion criticism


Post about some dickface being completely offtopic and not making sense


That enough?
It's a shame that I cleared out my pms two days ago or I could really make you feel like dumb >_>
I don't have a hundred or so contacts of people that I've helped with their animating over msn and I never have or will get close to having over 500 pms of helping people either.

I'm sorry that I'm apparently an asshole because I cannot tolerate ignorance, stupidity, and members such as Foshizzle acting like internet hard asses around me lol.
If you want a good lawl, go look up my ninja anim and fire master threads. Foshizzle talks a lot of shit now, but didn't have a damn problem awing over my work a year ago.

Good day sir :)

Also. Ask poppet if I help him on msn when he asks me a question.
Assuming that he isn't a liar =D