Here's adding the second half of what I intend to do



I want to add an enemy to the right side getting cut in half on her first swing and when she pulls the sword out of the ground and starts walking away the enemy will split in two. This is still extremely rough I only started fixing the first two frames so far.

Hi Shougi,

What a rough animation you have there.
There are some nice ideas and interesting executions (*pun intended*)
going on here.
The most important thing you have to look at
before you are using colorblocks to differentiate the
frames is to check the action where the swords
'falls in the ground' The falling is too slow and the
ladies action after the fall is really strange. I think
you want her to almost fall over but the action doesn't
read quite well.
I would avoid hair and all that before you have the
animation where the volumes remain the same.

Best regards from

M.E.

Decided to break it down to more or less linework for only the first 11 frames to help people critique. I'm working on the part where the sword plunges into the ground and the force of the swing causes her to be uplifted right now i'll post that when i find a plausible solution.



Anyways I left the bikini green just because some of the lines were only 1 pixel in size and they just vanished.

and avois these muscle details. it makes her looks horrible.

but at least don't let the steroid-power prevail! :D

yet it is still a woman. don't forget that. or else it will turn into a gayish transexual barbarian.

Thanks Sab, didn't realize that at all I'll try to adjust my animation to pivot in a similar manner.



Edited the characters pivot point on the swing to be at the balls of her feet as Saboteur suggested.

Here's where I may go with the animation, I think I either will have her do a flying side kick to the guy after she regains her balance and or a matrix style kick which splits him in half after he is cut. After which she will pull her  sword from the ground and walk away.

Rough animation of where I may go with this.




Edited by Shougi - 24 May 2008 at 7:40am

Thanks Aleiav I made her feet smaller and her hips wider where I could. Changed the animation up a bit, this may or may not be where i'm going with it. I also decided to shade in the frames that I felt weren't too bad to vary stuff up a bit.

It's hard to tell, you should post a static frame shaded so we can see. Or do one slow mo.

It's funny that Berserk inspired you as well to make a character with a gigantic sword.

Doubt this will help you with anything but I thought I'd post it anyways since you can always use it for pointers if you choose to do an over head swing.

First off; The handle is way too small no way anyone could lift that without any kind of leverage.
Two; her feet make her look like she's some kind of dog.
What is up with her stomach?
It seems she gains a good beer belly in mid swing.

Why do her elbows cross? Try swinging a broom stick like this.
Tell me if your elbows cross.


Edited by Souly - 29 May 2008 at 5:28pm

Absolutely love the blocking for the monster (It has motion curves and beautiful flow), even though it changes forms like a mad fool. It almost works for it, the changing forms.

As for the swordschick, I think you're leaning too far toward cool and ignoring what's physically possible or even logical in terms of momentum and force. And flow. She does this massive swordswing, chops the monster up the middle (which doesn't make sense in itself, seeing as how she orbits with the sword near a 45 degree angle), ends the sword swing by mashing the sword into the ground with one hand, then STOPS the twisting motion she has (seems impossible and removes the illusion of weight on the sword and warrior) and does this big, badass kick afterward.

And the kick IS badass. Love the blocking for it as well, I just don't think it fits at all with the actions preceding it.

I'll try make an edit, gimme a while :)

[EDIT]

Eff me, I have a whole new respect for how much work you're putting into this. That crap takes forever, and I sure as heck wouldn't have the patience to even THINK about putting muscles and stuff in an animation this large.



That's what I came up with, and I believe it comes close to solving a lot of issues.

... oh... wow. Just took another look at the ending, and I realised that she DOES cut him in half horizontally, though that also is not possible with your latest animation. I opted for the vertical cut, as I got confused by the line down the monster's middle when he gets kicked. Ahh well :/


Edited by Saboteur - 29 May 2008 at 8:34pm