Pixel Joint Forum: Idle animation. Need some feedback

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Hello. I am drawing idle animation for the game. This is marionette in some red suit and with giant sword in their hands. And there is a problem. The sword creates a lot of juggies when I tilting it. How can I minimize the count of juggies but still show that it moving with the figure. Do you have any ideas? 

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Owlmoss Seaman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Topic: Idle animation. Need some feedback Posted: 18 January 2018 at 12:24pm
	Hello. I am drawing idle animation for the game. This is marionette in some red suit and with giant sword in their hands. And there is a problem. The sword creates a lot of juggies when I tilting it. How can I minimize the count of juggies but still show that it moving with the figure. Do you have any ideas?
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Hapiel Rear Admiral Joined: 30 June 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3266	Posted: 18 January 2018 at 2:52pm
	Dont forget to use the direct link of the image and use the [img] tags, I fixed the image in the post for you. Also, please share the original 1x version with us, it makes it easier to edit and in the forum you can zoom by clicking on an image. As for your question: Often one needs to make stylistic choices to prevent jaggies. For example in the still pose you chose to put the sword at a perfect 45 degree angle. Why not find a solution to the movement where the sword does not need to rotate? It could move sideways as a whole, or up and down leaving the floor. Some more animation advice, try to make the movement come from his legs. He is standing in a funny pose with one heel raised off the floor.. Lifting the sword up and down would definitely not be done by raising the shoulders up and down like he does. The best way to figure out the correct motion is to try it yourself, get a heavy object and act out the idle animation! You might discover a solution for the sword that way too :)
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Owlmoss Seaman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 20 January 2018 at 5:17am
	Thank for the advices, Hapiel. I'll try to fix it then and post it here after it
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Owlmoss Seaman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 21 January 2018 at 7:10am
	Fixed! Is it better now?
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Hapiel Rear Admiral Joined: 30 June 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3266	Posted: 21 January 2018 at 8:06am
	Yes better, but not quite there yet I believe. Most importantly, rather than having the limbs hinge at the joints, it seems as if the bones in the arms and legs are shrinking and growing! Again, try and study yourself as you replicate the action. The new arms pose does make the sword seem lighter, which is alright if that was your intention. As for the movement in the sword, is it lifted off the floor for a moment? That would be really awkward in that position! I would suggest trying to have it slide sideways. The chain that's hanging on his left arm (our right) isn't hanging straight down.
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