Simply a base female run cycle to work off of for a sidesroller. I'm quite happy with it, but figured I'd have some fresh eyes take a look before I start working off it.

Looks pretty good, although quite jerky because every frame is drawn as a still rather than an object in motion (same reason claymation looks awkward). I don't know the name for it (not an animator) but maybe add some "trailing bits" where parts of her body move a great distance between frames? Like in this: http://www.feplanet.net/media/sprites/8/battle/sheets/enemy/oneil_fighter_axe.gif

That's bad usage of motion blur.

First of all, you can't emote fast running very well with this casual body position, even if you blur it. It just looks strange.

Second, your blur is not right, blur should cover area from previous position to new position, cause it represents large number of inbettween positions for short amount of time. You can't blur just feet, or specific part of the leg with the same forms (pointy stripe). You should watch arcs in body movement and create blur based on that. For example knee is making smaller arch than feet.

You should watch some cartoons for reference, they use this technique perfectly.



Edited by HarveyDentMustDie - 04 October 2014 at 5:34am

This is better. :) That's what I was talking about. Choice of blur depends on style you are aiming for.

But as I said it's not enough to add blur to make her run fast. Blur just compensate small number of frames and very fast movement. But you can't run fast with this casual body movement. Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-3cHxXAK0 . Look how arms and legs travel further.