ok, this is the progress of the animation.

Edited by dragonrc - 13 November 2006 at 7:29am

Hello. Please remove the link to imageshack from the images.

I'm very tired right now, so I'll just do some quick critique on the animation:

-his feet shouldnt slide along the ground like that, they should pretty much be stationary, except for a possible twisting of the ankles.
-his arm should bend

argh...if i wasnt so tired I'd do a quick example for you...until then I'll reuse the one I did earlier for someone else;



You need a proper angle of motion and a follow through. Plan the animation out, determine the key frames of the action and go from there. Do the action yourself infront of a mirror and freeze yourself at certain stages to get a good idea of what happens, etc.


Edited by EyeCraft - 13 November 2006 at 9:09am

Add some trail marks on the sword when its moving, and add a few framses more

Like I said before, his feet shouldn't slide over the ground like that, it doesn't make sense. You've approached the motion far too linearly. You have to think about how much time each part of the motion takes and assign numbers of frames accordingly.

Ummm...ok stand up and turn around 180 degrees. Did your feet slide magically over the ground? Unless you are standing on ice or are floating in space, there's actually going to be  muscular movement that you will do.

Observe doing the motion. Replicate it in the animation.

When you upload something on imageshack it spits a bunch of URLs at you. You want to copy the direct link to image url. Then using the image button on this website (picture of tree) you paste in the url and presto, image is in your post and people can zoom it.


Edited by EyeCraft - 14 November 2006 at 5:54am

The raising of the sword looks good. I think there should be some conveyence of energy or magic, however, such as his hair moving or floating.

His arm appears to shorten as he raises the sword, you should make sure its always the same apparent length.

I'm well aware of how the arm should bend. But thats not how it looks in the animation. His arms should be further outwards from his body, at the moment they seem to shrink in towards his torso in a noodly fashion. Try to put your arms in the same position the character has them...yours will stick out much further.

Edited by EyeCraft - 15 November 2006 at 2:15am

If you're going to animate it, I don't think dithering is the right way to go. Otherwise, that animation would take AGES. :O

I would look at Blueberry_Pie's signature which, last I checked, had a pretty awesome explosion animation in it. Granted, this is a magical spell, but I think the colors and transitions would be beneficial to look at.

  here it is

Edited by dragonrc - 16 November 2006 at 6:01am

Im sorry to hear that

Edited by dragonrc - 16 November 2006 at 8:38am

Calm down people.

problem 1: Well, when I removed the dithers some parts looks kind of wierd, like in the middle, or should i just dither less?

Edited by dragonrc - 16 November 2006 at 9:42pm

Wow, that looks fantastic!

sorry, but whats it called, flames?

I think it's less defined than before, but still rigid because they're pointy. I'd look at snader's edit again or google some pictures of fire.

Aleiav: Ill try to make them less spikey, also ill make some loose flames:

I say you should reduce the color count even more. Sorry, this is just a real quick color replacement, and though it looks like ****...

... you don't need so many colors! It can actually ruin the aspect of your flames. In that picture, there are only 3 colors + transparency. You may have to adapt your image so that it looks better, such as removing the dither, but you'll end up making things much faster, and that look much nicer.

Edited by ceddo - 19 November 2006 at 8:02am

Update:

maby his solves the problem.

Edited by dragonrc - 21 November 2006 at 5:00am

Woah, that gav me some inspiration

im going to do it all over

i made a sketch of how it going to look:

Yeah, ill try to fix it, i am quite bussy the next 2 days so i think the update will come somewhat later