Thanks for the recommendation, that book looks awesome.

I've been raised on Loony Toons cartoons as well.  hopefully that helps, hehe.  Cheers!

Nothing formal, just this incredible book that I read years ago and should re-read and check out the DVDs they turned it into now that I've got more practice with some methods.  I'm not sure if being raised by Loony Toons counts as formal either, so nope!

have you had any formal training in animation? just curious.

Yes, sorry it does look silly out of context I suppose! The knife sprite goes through the air on the engine side of things, so it just looks like it disappears for a couple of frames for this loop.

Yes, i could understand that being what he's doing.

I think he's meant to be throwing knives 

Why does the knife dissapear for a few frames? Other than that cool.