Not sure what you mean by or about the semi-trans pixels? I put a second layer on when i was putting the rider on the horse, in case i made any mistake.

Well, the spear hides that bit but I think you have plenty of room :/

E: btw, when I downloaded the horse ani to make that edit I noticed that some pixels did not have 100% opacity (the green pixels). Double check your layer opacity in those areas.

Edited by jalonso - 28 July 2014 at 3:33pm

Stop being sorry for everything.
I'm sure your parental units are very proud of your sweet, well behaved and docile behaviour but unless you're a Geisha stop it :p

A smaller update, made outline consistant.

Amonster other things, i changed the wolf, made it look like it was actually snapping, rather than just lunging forwards with it's mouth open.

And i also changed the angle and direction of the slash, so it's coming from the tip of the sword.

Tried changing the zombie to add more impact to it's attack as well.

Also Here's my attempt at a running animation:




Just focusing on the run first, rather than the bounce it's supposed to have.


Edited by AshCrimson - 03 August 2014 at 2:48pm

Attack + Run animation combined:

About the run, he's landing way to far in front of his center of gravity, so really what is happening is he's creating large breaking forces.

Now with both arms animated as well (plus hips)

I'll definitely try to find a way to do that!

I'm still having issues in regards to the perspective, so i've been working on it:

First is a straight on view, the middle two are the original perspectives. 1 = Update 2 = Original and the last is a side on view.



I hope the update conveys the perspective, since i'm at a loss as to what to do, especially with the chest and hips. I tried shading them to look like they're turned, but i can't escape from the fact that they look like they're being seen in a straight on view.

Thanks for the edit!

Here's an update:



Ended up choosing 1.

My attempt at animating the one-handed attack with the perspective fixed:



Comparison to the previous version:



Not sure if it's any better or any worse.

Here's another quick update:

Two-handed attack following the fixed perspective:



And the previous version for comparison:



I'm hoping it looks just as good as the previous version (although i am aware there's not much noticable difference), otherwise i fear having altered the perspective would be redundant and a waste of time. I probably have the arms wrong, but it'll take some time to get used to it.


Edited by AshCrimson - 10 August 2014 at 1:48pm

the arms are a little long, and you need some shoulder rotation also, when the legs are crossing over eachother, its hard to tell which leg is in front.  I would try putting an outline under the yellow leg to make it more clear its the one in front.  Its only really an issue in the 5th frame I think.  Doesnt need to be a black outline maybe just like a darker shadow under the leg.

to rotate the shoulder all you basically have to do is move the whole arm forward or back 1 or 2 pixels.

Should expression between attacks represent taunt? Now it looks more like he's saying "No,no", and mostly because of head movement. During the taunt he should look straight at his opponent not all around. I like rotating sprite, he is leaning forward like he's going to fall but that's because of resolution restrictions, and it's not so big problem.

Update



Tried to make the leap between idle and attack less uh pronounced and increased wind-up, hopefully it adds more impact.

Basically i want it to look smooth and fluid

Thanks for the advice! I didn't intend for him to look uh, depressed.

Reduced length of frames, removed head looking down, made him lean back when he's lifting the sword onto his shoulder, made him lean forward whilst he swings the sword upward, altered breathing sub-pixelling again and generally tried to make it more fluid and less stiff:






Edited by AshCrimson - 15 August 2014 at 2:43am

Not as happy with this as the two-handed version:



The sword on the shoulder is probably redundant, but i wanted to make it look more interesting.

Edit:

Without the sword and shoulder, as well as other, small changes:




Edited by AshCrimson - 16 August 2014 at 10:37am

Updated spear attack:



Updated archer attack:





Edited by AshCrimson - 20 August 2014 at 1:20pm

I have to click it to get it to animate for some reason...

Anyway, his starting pose is a bit awkward. He's leaning away from his axe, which is pretty weird.
He could also use a bit more upper body movement.

Yes... Ash is a war horse isn't he.

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late, i usually try to make daily posts, so i can chart my progress but i have been a bit busy with personal stuff:

Not a big change, but i've been playing around with idle-stances, trying to make the characters look less boring when they aren't attacking:



 Stance influenced by Kaede's from Last Blade:




Also added an attempt at a second attack, not an overhead, more of a sideways slash as such, probably needs alot of fixing though.


Edit:



On retrospect, if he's holding a shield he'd pretty much be holding it up all the time, hopefully this quick edit addresses this



Edited by AshCrimson - 24 August 2014 at 2:54pm

Been getting a tad burnt out from all the animating, so decided to go back to the bigger base version i was working on previously:



I'm having a few problems, although im still consulting anatomy books and reading up it, i still struggle with them. For conveniance sake i've labelled them and pointed them out:

1: I don't know how to make it look more like an arm, the unnatural straightness of it, as it reaches the hand really makes it look bad in my opinion. I've tried shifting it to either side, but it doesn't fix the problem. The top part of the arm seems to me to be too rounded and smooth and it also doesn't show the elbow, but im unsure of how to fix that problem atm.

2: It's more to do with perspective than anatomy i guess, but i want to show the arm is obscured, whilst ensuring it's the same size as the other, so i avoid one limb looking weaker or shrunken in comparison. I'm also unsure of the hands placement and how much would be obscured.

3:Ah yes, the chest; i've widened it so it obscures the shoulder. I guess im including this because im more interested in seeing what you guys think of it, and if there's any issues with it.

4: I feel like the thighs are too large, but im worried if i reduce them they'll look too small. In previous versions the thigh just stopped and was a completely smooth line which make it looks strange, tried to edit it but it still looks weird. Also tried representing the calf muscle, but it may not read as well as previous versions. I'm also unsure if the foot is proportionate at this point.

5:Basically the same for this leg as for the other one. I couldn't show the calf muscle due to the angle it's posed in at the moment. The thigh leg also seems to end with an unnatural straightline. Tried showing the knee via shading but not sure how readable it is.

6: Hands. With the size limitations im unsure of how to make genuinely readable hands. I guess you could say they're placeholders, but i'd like to hear your opinions them.

stomach comes in too much imo

They're supposed to be male :/

It's supposed to be a basis from which other characters can be created, sort of like my previous attempts at making characters on a smaller scale.

I've lowered the blue shoulder, increased the size of the waist, made the outside pec less uh, busty and tried to make it look less like an hourglass.

I also tried to make the pec lines look less like breast lines, but im genuinely unsure how to atm.

Made a bigger, more detailed version. Will probably apply what i've learnt to the medium version: