My foray into animating

[aiat_gamer]

So I have been using the Spriter for about a month now, and I have done some basic animation for jumping, running and walking using pre-made art. Today I made my first animation for the game I am working on:

 

 

This took me much more than I anticipated...! The front legs were easy, but getting the back legs really messed me up. I think it took around 3 hours  :eek: . Of course I am a total noob so...It still requires some tweaking but the general animation is ok I think. 

You will be hearing from me a lot more in the upcoming days and weeks. 

[Wsmpjjiprept]

Это было круто .

[spritesheet]

Hi aiat_gamer,

 

The leg animation is smooth and realistic, congrats!

 

You decided to hide the eyes under the hair, which makes the whole picture a bit difficult to comprehend at first. Initially I did not notice the 'mouth' and thought the head was 'looking' to my left and the legs where coming out of the eyesockets (the 2 visible wounds). I thought the nose was an ear and the lower jaw was the neck... :)

 

Your future art will take less time to create, a lot of efficiency comes from experience

 

Good luck!

[aiat_gamer]

Hi aiat_gamer,

 

The leg animation is smooth and realistic, congrats!

 

You decided to hide the eyes under the hair, which makes the whole picture a bit difficult to comprehend at first. Initially I did not notice the 'mouth' and thought the head was 'looking' to my left and the legs where coming out of the eyesockets (the 2 visible wounds). I thought the nose was an ear and the lower jaw was the neck... :)

 

Your future art will take less time to create, a lot of efficiency comes from experience

 

Good luck!

Haha, thanks.

Yeah the art still needs work, this is more or less the first draft. I just wanted to have something to start with the animation process. This might be easier to discern when NOT against a while background but thanks for the feedback, I will try to change somethings in it. 

[aiat_gamer]

Ok, I just did a new one:

 

 

I am not so sure about the head movement though, have to tinker with it more. 

[NarwhalAndNot]

aww damn im not the only one to make a robot  head spider thingy then XD looks cool man :)

[aiat_gamer]

I hope it is ok to post, but I used Spineboy`s character part to practice my basic animation poses (they look a bit choppy since I used GifCam to make the GIFs).

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I found out is that the way your animation looks depends highly on the quality of the sprites, I think! I did the same using some other rough made sprites:

 

 

 

And they look not that good. (That head bob while running, I did it one purpose, I wanted some goofy looking run animation). I will soon add a new animation to that my "crawling enemy", should be fun  :-P

[aiat_gamer]

Just two new animations I did. First a new jumping:

 

 

And as for the crawler enemy, I had to make it from scratch since for the animation I wanted, the body needed to be two parts. So I did everything from scratch, and changed the clothes color while I was at it. 

 

[aiat_gamer]

So, it has been a while since I posted something hasn't it? I have been pretty busy with stuff, some of them I cant show yet but I have done some stuff for smaller projects:

  

 

And I tried my hand at the FFD function of Spriter too:

 

   

 

I really hope it gets ready soon! Right now it is pretty fiddly and buggy some times.

[mannygill99]

I really like these dude :D do more!!!

So, it has been a while since I posted something hasn't it? I have been pretty busy with stuff, some of them I cant show yet but I have done some stuff for smaller projects:

  

 

And I tried my hand at the FFD function of Spriter too:

 

   

 

I really hope it gets ready soon! Right now it is pretty fiddly and buggy some times.

[aiat_gamer]

I really like these dude :D do more!!!

Haha, I have a problem with coming up with what to draw, I need someone to tell me :D.

[aiat_gamer]

 

Bang bang! 

[Ventos]

Ahh facing right. If it the best for you i undertand. Also i like the bang aha. Love the blue cloak. I dont know yet how to work with skin so i get amazed who use it.

[aiat_gamer]

Ahh facing right. If it the best for you i undertand. Also i like the bang aha. Love the blue cloak. I dont know yet how to work with skin so i get amazed who use it.

There is a semi-tutorial on it, but to be honest I hate using it...it is very buggy and frustrating to use right now. Cant wait for the actual thin to come out though!

[aiat_gamer]

 

So I added some subtle (and not so subtle) tweaks in the animation. Funny that smallest thing can make a lot of difference.

 

Also this:

 

I wanted to see was it possible to animate using stick figure limbs, the results are not bad :). 

[aiat_gamer]

     

 

 

I am helping someone with his project, kind of like a Terraria clone for now, hopefully we can come up with some stuff to make it more unique. 

On a side note, I guess I am among the few who is using Spriter for pixel art  :-P

[aiat_gamer]

         

 

[mannygill99]

nice sprites my dude very inspiring for me :P

[bwwd]

nice walkcycles :)

[aiat_gamer]

Ok, an update after a loooong time:

 

 

[aiat_gamer]

[aiat_gamer]

             

[ruberboy]

Quite an improvement. Keep at it!