Edited by Souly - 11 June 2008 at 3:09pm

Edited by Souly - 05 June 2008 at 7:48pm

Better movement; before it looked like the leg was being kicked out too far (or maybe that's just me)
And looks like its been slowed down a tad - which is easier to follow. :)

Finished up the walking animations shading.

The walking character seems a little stressed. He needs to slow down.

Edited by A.B. - 06 June 2008 at 10:28am

something is wrong with that shading. while the idle sequence shows a flat bodym the walking animation looks as if his torso was like a giant eraser. too square-ish IMO.

and the walking as a whole looks really unnatural to me. not because of the frame speed, but because of the way the body in general moves.

btw, why the left-right movement of the head? no man walks like that. such thing is extremely overrated, and still don't believe it could add anything to emphasise the walking movements.


Edited by Metaru - 06 June 2008 at 11:55pm

Hey Souly I do a fair bit of boxing so the only advice I can give is that the character's rear leg would not advance forward at all, it just pivots with the heel swinging towards the viewer. The right hip would also twist and a typical fighter has his other hand guarding his face. Front leg usually remains rather still unless you want to punch at a different elevation in which case it would bend.

Quick paint over to explain; in the edit i adjusted the final frame a bit and lowered his head to get some protection behind his shoulder when throwing his power punch.

Okay, I'm ditching the current sprites I have at the moment.
The anatomy is horrible, and the sprite is some sort of midget.
I remember seeing that fighter tutorial at sprite art, I also remember Helm mentioning the average person is 5 heads tall. (I could be wrong)


Anyways, I've decided to work on the weapon stances for the new character design.
I need to work on my anatomy...
As well as eventually create both male and female versions of these. D:

From left to right;
Fists(claws), Two-handed sword, One-handed and secondary(sheild,grapple), Staff, Dualies, Crossbow, Magic Book, Spear 

Yeah I was corrected on pixelation.
Anyways...



Edited by Souly - 10 June 2008 at 2:59am

Nice start on the new bases interested to see what you come up with.

Cheers

That's cool, keep it up!

Seems unnatural to me so much movement with that long sword....
Bending so much your knees just makes no sense and make you consume a lot of energy; a professional swordman would just swich the weight between his feet.

Okay I had a little chat with a swordman friend of mine, and he gave me some really nice pieces of advice.
First of all he talked about the stance: the front leg is okay, while the rear one should (should!) be straight. Usually the attack stance is with the sword pointing the forehead of your enemy.
The sword is long and supposed to be heavy, so he suggested to keep the main hand on the hilt, while the other one a bit raised to sustain the blade itself.
Well unless you character have a superhuman strenght, that is a technical suggestion from an "expert"; you can follow it or let it go, your call!

Smooth?

look at the knees - I feel like he's trembling.

otherwise okay.

Looks good, but imo he should be dragging (pulling) that giant sword, and tha attack should be really, really slow. Unless it's a superman lol

ownd