Hello, I'm working on an entry for the current weekly challenge. I decided on a naked guy running for his life while wearing a towel.
I just finished the base for it and I wanted to get some C&C on my animation before moving on to coloring him.
Here he is:


Head and body movement I'll probably do while I'm coloring him. I'm not entirely happy with the arms or the towel, right now.

False, everyone is allowed to ask for specific critique in the WIP forums, always.


Nice animation! Just the arms seem a little stiff, they can use a lot more movement!

Woopsie, I should learn to read!
Forget what I said before, he should have less arm movement! All possible remaining movement comes directly from the shoulder :)

But the challenge thread even says to put it there!

Oooooh I thought the meaning was it was highly discouraged to post in WIP forum and in here would be better.

Not sure why...


Anyways for suggestions I think he could be holding the towel up with one hand and then a towel on his head with the other but then have a few frames where the towel almost falls off and he reaches down to pull it back up.

I suck at animation all I can say is it looks perfect to me.

Edited by Limes - 28 May 2014 at 2:45pm

I'm pretty happy with this! The only problem I can think of is the motionless head, which should be fixable.

Also, unrelatedly, but I don't want to post another topic, I'm working on a piece of art for my Youtube channel. The header image on the channel.


I went pretty crazy with the dithering, hehe. I'm happy with how it is now, just a bit bare, which I'm working on. Also, I'm using Dawnbringer's palette for this thing. I'm not used to limited color palettes, but it's been pretty fun working out which colors to use.
Also also, the way the channel art works, the middle part with my name will be visible on every platform, the sides around my name will be visible depending on a desktops' resolution, while the upper and lower parts will only be visible on a television.
Another thing I'm going to mention is that this is going to be blown up 4x in the end, for the resolution Youtube recommends.

EDIT: Wop wop, another update. I just colored him. Not confident in my shading job. Also I'm still considering whether or not I should keep the outlines black.


Edited by JackBread - 30 May 2014 at 6:55pm

Hi,
Nice work! I see you already uploaded it, but I wanted to comment on this anyway:
The colors are really dull. You also usea  lot of them. Why is the face so dark? More contrast between skin and towel would help. The floor texture seems rushed.
I addressed these issues here:



One handed run animation looks good. In the longer airtime pose you recreated it seems like his leg is shrinking in size, but except for that it is very nice!

Thanks, guys!



Yeah, I kinda rushed to finish/upload it since I was going to be busy for the most part, today, along with having a few other things on my plate.
I made the colours more vibrant in my uploaded version, though not as much as you had made them, which I actually like better. Still trying to improve on my colour-picking.
About the ground, I'm not too great at textures. I'm working at it, though, haha. Also, the face was dark because I imagined a light source from the upper right. I don't think I kept entirely to that light, though...

And for the record, I was going for a cartoony style of running, which is why I angled the back backwards.

Thanks for the criticism! I really appreciate it!

I don't think this is what makes it look awkward. This 30 degree stretch is when you don't open your hip to the side. If you are a bit more flexible and open your hip up a bit you can get the bend like in the animation. Yes, it looks like his back is \\ but it is not. It is only the chest that goes backwards, and by sending the chest backwards your belly goes to the front and this twists your hip backwards too, creating this shape )). That makes it even easier to stretch this far back.