Rolvak's update thread...

UPDATE
I made a new STCK so I made a running loop to test it out

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This one, you can see slight choppiness and a bit shaky. As you know the foot placement is off too.

Anyway, when you are punching, make sure force is involved to know that the effect of the punch makes sense. After the stick punched the wall, the rocks or whatever come out, but on like the 6th frame of the rocks being there, it just stays in the same place, dissolving. They shouldn't do that, realistic movements would keep it falling because of gravity (as you can see, the animation isn't anti-gravity.) You need to focus equally on both arms, because you see the right arm, (the arm that isn't punching), it just pops down facing his feet when he was kept his arm curved about 30 degree angle just about. It needs to get lower, as in like a 28 degree then 25 degree.



The run looks okay, but it's stiff and once again, choppy.

Did you look carefully at the back? It snaps farther back somehow when he's falling back down. That should be fixed. The legs and arms are stiff, when you look at the arms, their joints never move, just the fact that you made the move just up and down.

Do more easing and check your animation's frames more. But I'd say you are improving.

EDIT: You stick is nice.. >.>

Heh same old same old. Rolvak still needs help with foot sliding. Meh. Anyway good job rolvak you've done me proud! :3

No offence, but your name is wierd.( XD Akuma?)
Look at the foot placement tutorial Zed posted around here. It helped me alot

The walk is pretty shaky and has bad foot placement. Fix that.
The punch is pretty much the same.
The seizure time is ok ... lol
That 4th jumping thingy needs more realism ( he runs and suddenly he gets up in the air, try to make him jump or something )
Although the 5th is pretty well eased, it needs more work ( it's stiff )
The 6th animation ( jumping ) is pretty choppy, uneased and stiff
Trails are OK
Running needs to be more dynamic, more physics and easing
The second running is a little better than the first, although the arms are kinda floating around
The first stickman you created is epic.
The sword is pretty good
"Slash/trail/new stcks test" - you're getting better, just reduce stiffness as much as possible ( by moving every joint in every frame )
"3-D sword test I still don't have enough blood sticks or ability to make some so I will edit this wen I get some..." - I really don't know what to say....
The Running Loop is good, just make it flow *look up a tutorial on flowing*
The first Punch Combo was quite good, smooth eased and realistic. I don't know what you messed up on that
X2 Punch Combo - Well.... Shouldn;t have added the effect, the punches look pretty good on their own. Also, don't forgot to reduce stiffness
''Effects Test'' - Pretty badass
And finally, the last stickman + running loop was awesome.
Take these comments as a tip, I am NOT, in any way, offending you or other animators.
kthxbai

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That is the biggest CC anyone has given to me, wen I first saw it I almost choke on my cookie D:

Its only big because he pressed enter in between each one otherwise it would look like one of my usual long posts.

he broke a rule

UPDATE
It's just a small rust breaker ^_^ just to revive the animating thread :3

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Not sure if its my comp.. But this looks extreamly shakey/choppy during certain points of the animation. If anyone else notices it please do tell..

Yeah, that does look choppy to me. You gotta make sure all the movements are smooth. Eg:
Good: ||-|--|---|-----|-----|---|--|-||
Bad: ||--|--|-|----|----|--|--|---|-||

I am back with a rust breaker for a starter.

It went slow. :c

Let's just jump this fence and get to business.

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Speaking of rust here's a dude doing to robot:

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Please note that there are some choppy stops, I made those so it looks like a stiff stop.

give that robot some music to dance to

the red guy has better flow than the blue.
the blue is also somewhat choppy. both sticks need some more easing

It's all quite choppy. Ease a bit more, but for de-rusting, I like it . Keep it up unit gangster.

When I first watched the fence update, it looks like their feet just go right through the fence. It is still very nice though.

UPDATE
19/02/13
Running rust breaker.

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At the end you can notice a small break in one of the foots and in the arm.
Also, did you guys like my Sig.stk? c:

Shaky arms and shaky back leg. I did notice the break between in the front leg.
Also, there are too many frames when the legs are in the middle.
And extend those arms more. They stay bent the whole time.

I'm thrilled to see a new animation ^^
He's a bit big for my taste, but that's fine.

UPDATE
20/02/13
Punching loop

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I think the legs are stiff.

Rolvak wrote:

I think the legs are stiff.

Why would you think that?

sage wrote:

Rolvak wrote:

I think the legs are stiff.

Why would you think that?

I don't know, it's just this feeling that I have, other than that, I think the animation is good, apart from the end of the loop that needs some work.

The back arm is kind of shaky, but other than that, it's good.

I like the new stuff. It's very smooth, it just seems rather slow. a few of the movements of the hands or feet seem a little jerky too.