I see what you mean about them pointing up too long where it connects to the head. Not seeing what you mean about the bend. I'll keep staring at it though. Maybe it'll look right once I correct the head connect part and wont look so straight to you? Definitely not seeing a major difference in yours though, sorry! I'll mess with the wing bend as it pulls up more though. As for wing shape, her head has those funny Captain America type wings, while her back ones should be more like what you linked to (actually, need to change them to that in a few frames. Crud. Thanks for getting me to notice that!)

As for the lift movement, she does lift when then wings beat down. or, more specifically, she stops falling as she beats her wings, gains a little lift from it that she rides as her wings pull up, and then immediately begins to fall again. Your angel is very light and airy; I wanted a very heavy feel - that shield and spear weigh more than she's physically designed to fly with, so she beats her wings quickly and with enough force to keep in the air.

The new frames HAVE changed the timing on this a bit though, I'll keep that in mind and see if I should change it a bit. Might look more correct if I have her start to move up one frame sooner now.


@Serrival - woah page 2! I'll keep working on the changed frames and see if the new animation can get smoother after the changes I'm planning :) but after noticing it, her wings do need to fold as they go upward, or they'd be hitting the same amount of wind resistance and pushing her back downward.

Edited by Zeratanus - 26 September 2013 at 2:09pm

Hi, I want to improve your animation, but I'm too lazy to do it illustrative manner :)
I want to say that her hand must move first in front of, and then her leg. But here they move in parallel.
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And besides her back should tilt a bit in front at the time of the throw (or badly because it depends on the strength of her cast)

For example like this: she is too straight back, because of this strike seems weak.

Oh goodness! Looks like I'll be retooling it after all, because I love that too much to be happy with what I have now! 

I'm both endlessly frustrated by the never ending edits to this and greatly enjoying learning and improving everything!

But someday I will call this finished. I owe that much to everyone who's been helping me out here!


Speaking of: New version. Man it hurts to cut frames out of this thing but I think it's for the best.

Changes:
• Shield now tilts when blocking the blast, so its less stiff

• Major frame cuts when getting up. Now she looks at her hand immediately and attacks, rather than staring off for a few moments

• Beginnings of the edit for the new attack, including having her lean forward more, now that this is a more energetic motion. The entire 'getting blown back' part is still in but will have to be scrapped, as it makes no sense with the new attack.


old->new


(i'm thinking of ending the attack with her losing her balance and falling over, cuz it would be cute, but I'm not set on that yet)

Edited by Zeratanus - 08 January 2014 at 1:40pm

Jumped on it for a bit early this morning. Got the full loop going now, though the getting up animation definitely needs more frames~

Yeaaah now that there's more fluid animation in other parts the stiffer parts are becoming very obvious. No huge change here, but they do move more so its less rigid. Took out a frame of the attack too. Might look a little too fast for me, but it definitely looks like it has the force to spin her around now.

Also added a few more sketchy frames to the getting up pose. Not a ton of progress, but its getting there.

Thanks for making this, Zeratanus. It's inspiring as all heck.

You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round~



slow going but at least this isnt the months long breaks I've had in the past lol

Two more new frames... and only two more until I'm done with the brand new frames and can get back to tweaking everything~

This would of been done a long time ago, but twice now, once for each frame, the program crashed and lost all of my progress even though I was certain I had saved. File might be getting too big for this junky computer to handle.

MUAHAHAHAHA! ITS FINALLY A FULL LOOP AGAIN! NOT DONE BUT NO MORE SKETCHY FRAMES!

Thanks Jal!

I'm not really certain the getting up frames are the best yet though. Definitely could use some tweaking, so I made a version of just her falling on her face over and over so I can stare at it.

As always, If anyone sees anything i could tweak don't hesitate to let me know!




(also just noticed the entire set of frames between the brand new ones and her being back in the air are still uncleaned :( not particularly noticeable but I'll have to get them fixed. Haven't worked on this for this long to skimp on details lol)

@Yuran
Nice fanart ;D

@Zeratanus
Golly, you've been working on this for awhile. So much dedication O_O