Okay Im going to teach you how to make a basic Punch.






Frame Number

| = Different frames

Onion Skin

Notice how i start my movement Slowly With The First 2 - 3 Frames This is how you get an Eased Punch



I started Slow and then on teh 3rd frame i started to get quicker. Notice?

That applys this Motion to The animation.



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Okay Moving on. Towards the End of the punch you are going to need to double frame the actual hit. This Makes it so the viewers can actually see the punch and the impact. otherwise it jsut looks like the stick is throwing his arms around like a ****ing clown. Frame 8-9 Should have the extended arm double framed. I have Made frame 10 int he same pose too becuase i have only made one single punch. i have had made a combo i would have made teh extended arm mvoe down a little. To prepare for the next punch.




Notice that on frame 8 the ground actually Moves down. This is to increase impact. The ground moves down and the stick figure moves down aswell.
Frame 9 is moves up again.

Notic also how on Frame 8-9-10 I am slowing My movements down. This applies Easing again. Slowing down the movement after a significant hit.

Remember easing is much like this
Key:
| Frame
- Movement

|-|--|---|------|------|----|--|-|-|


Hope this tutorial helped you.

-Power fuse0-

good job pf0. This'll help me and tons of other people, keep it up...

Yeah It did help me and it helped me alot.Hopefully it would help others too.Thanks for posting this and I hope you would make some other tuts next time in the future.

Hi , Good tut are you fuse off the easytoon place?

helped alot. Very good tut. (tut anim was very good too) Keep it up.

Not very helping.
The back needed to be bended and when he raises his arms he looks he stops.

Also the punch was there for like 10 frames.

thanks, i've always had trouble making a decent punch that isn't really jittery.

great tutorial power fuse0. very detailed and it helped me alot as im still learning practicing basic movements.

Quote from Gunned.Stick.

Not very helping.
The back needed to be bended and when he raises his arms he looks he stops.

Also the punch was there for like 10 frames.

the back does bend its just hard to notice (above middle of spine). and if you actually read the tut he says:

Okay Moving on. Towards the End of the punch you are going to need to double frame the actual hit. This Makes it so the viewers can actually see the punch and the impact. otherwise it jsut looks like the stick is throwing his arms around like a ****ing clown. Frame 8-9 Should have the extended arm double framed. I have Made frame 10 int he same pose too becuase i have only made one single punch. i have had made a combo i would have made teh extended arm mvoe down a little. To prepare for the next punch.

Quote from Gunned.Stick.

Not very helping.
The back needed to be bended and when he raises his arms he looks he stops.

Also the punch was there for like 10 frames.

Since when did you bend you back when punching.
My style is realistic.
Not cartoony. This is a really good punch. And anyway, his back does lunge forwards, like Necrode said. It is un noticable, but it stops the animation for looking stiff. But in like you hardly do a mechie wave with your back while punching. Plus with combos you can make it look not so stiff.
uppercuts & Kicks ect


Thanks for hte comments guys.

Sweet, that really helped me out! all i could do is chop, and now its a punch, thanks

gr8 it help me!

Thanks for the comments guys, This is a good Tutorial, Please use it, it will help.
I explained in full detail and even added a little bit about spacing/easing/smoothing whatever you want to call it.

AMAZING!!! i tried so hard to find a decent tutorial and i couldnt find....
until now!
THX MAN!
could u plz see whats wrong with mine?
for some reason it looks worse!

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/8729/punchab5.gif

Quote from Rabstar

AMAZING!!! i tried so hard to find a decent tutorial and i couldnt find....
until now!
THX MAN!
could u plz see whats wrong with mine?
for some reason it looks worse!

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/8729/punchab5.gif

Its stiff, your feet didn't stay at a base. And its unsmoothed.