I think I found what's wrong.

The first frame (where the foot on our left is in front)makes it look like she is jumping to the left. The rest of the animation the hips stay in the middle of the image.

Center the hip on that first frame and it should be ok.


Edited by solarstrings - 28 November 2010 at 4:09am

this is a million times better, i didnt like the bowed leg look run, also in the original i believe the elbows kick up too high/out to the side for a run.

Its looking better, but she doesnt look like she's going near as fast in the current one as the she did in the old one. I think it may be the arms: before they were kind of comically exaggerated now they just flop front to back like she's power-walking. Her arms should be bent at the elbow a fair amount and either move mostly forwards and back (as opposed to out as you had before), or if your going for a "girly" run you could keep the elbows down more like what you have and pull the lower arms outward so they move towards and away from her as she runs.


Edit: Ugh, cant find a good "girly" run image on google atm, and cant spend any more time looking for one <<. but heres something:

Normal run:


"girly" run:


(hopefully both of those sites allow hotlinking...)

Edited by Zeratanus - 29 November 2010 at 11:48am

Ah-ha! Thank you very much! Yeah, I couldn't find anything good when I Googled "girly run" either... hahaha. XD

Better now?

H|S - that's actually pretty similar to what I was going for. XD Although yeah, the arms. D:

As to that second video... just... just... what.


Edited by StarRaven - 29 November 2010 at 12:42pm

Does indeed look better :D

@ H|F - i think its a trick of the eyes, caused by the shading. Since the right (our right) leg has dark shading it doesnt seem to bump out as much as the brighter left leg.

Of course, maybe they really are off. I cant examine it frame by frame at the moment.

well i took it and looked frame by frame, and one thing i noticed is that the tail suddenly pops from the left side to the right side and back again. if you can make it a bit less drastic it may be more fluid. but as it is now i dont think it's bad.

The loincloth thing hanging down also probably should flap around a good deal more, but heck if I know how fabric hanging like that would behave during a run :\

Yeah, I think you're right about the tail. While I'm on that subject, I was informed that it may be... er... backwards? Just in case, I did one with the tail swinging in the opposite direction:

Which one looks better? Old or new? (Either way, like you said, it needs a bit of cleaning up to look more fluid.)

now that you mention it, yes the second is how it should look :)

Great stuff so far. Gonna be following the progress on here.

The reverting back to normal animation will probably be pretty tricky, especially if you want her to be in the same position as she started. No real suggestions though, I got no clue how it could be done x]

Might have to take a break from animations when I'm done here, this has been pretty draining, heh. Maybe I should consider a four-frame walk animation... I don't know if I have the resolve to get through a process like this for every character in the game. ^ ^;


Edit! Fixed the movement some. No more rubber spine! 8D


Edited by StarRaven - 02 December 2010 at 12:28am

I've been working on some menus and programming and stuff, but I'm back to this now. The south-facing one still isn't 100% done, but I'm taking a break on it... ^ ^;;

Also started on a portrait for her:

She won't actually be naked, armless, and boring, haha. I haven't started on the clothes yet and this is her "expressionless" expression. D:


Edited by StarRaven - 09 December 2010 at 8:08pm

Looks great! Have you heard about in-betweening? It's an animation technique used by frame by frame animators. In-betweening applies to most things that can be animated with the exception of 'unpredictable' things such as fire and water. Seeing as you know how the animation will start and end, you draw the first and last frames, and then you draw one in the middle, which is a pose half way between the first and last frame, and then you go between the start and the middle, and also the middle and the last, etc. You get what I mean? It makes animation so much easier.