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[zwimmy]

I gotta agree with rtil, you should work on your anatomy a bit. Same with your technique, as a few parts are a little sloppy, like her hand. Just get some good reference and practice and it will come to you.

You have a lot of vision and creativity, and that's something that is more difficult to learn. Just brush up on those fundamentals and build a solid foundation.

[jam1220]

Skullgril animations because


don't own jack just got bored

[rtil]

not bad, but they could use more slow in and slow out. basically, there is no ease on the high/low left/right keys.

[jam1220]

not bad, but they could use more slow in and slow out. basically, there is no ease on the high/low left/right keys.

slower

[jam1220]

did you mean slower like this?

[rtil]

sort of. when he leans all the way to the  right, that should be a slow in and slow out. the fast part is the arc of movement when he's going from either to the far left or right pose.
unfortunately on the left, where you do have the easing, there's a fair bit of popping from the last frame to the original frame.

[jam1220]

pop

ya I notice that too it was suppose to be a demspey roll but when I looked at it he looked like he was going to charge like a bull so I keep it that way

[jam1220]

alright slow right

[rtil]

the timing is better, yeah. but honestly a lot of these frames would have to be re-drawn because of all the popping. how exactly did you go about animating this?

[jam1220]

how exactly did you go about animating this?

sketch them on the computer
then upload the frames to jasc to animated them

[rtil]

i'm not familiar with jasc. what i mean is, what is your animation process? does jasc have onion skin? when do you do pose to pose or straight ahead?

[jam1220]

what is your animation process?

http://jam1220.deviantart.com/art/HOW-TO-ANIMATE-LIKE-JAM1220-392541996

[rtil]

i think the animating with notecards thing is the source of a lot of your issues. if you'd really like to animate traditionally, you need to invest in some kind of lightboard , a peg puncher and peg board for your lightboard, so you can flip and roll your frames and see what you are doing more clearly.

obviously that's a bit of an investment, so if you'd prefer the digital route a program like flash has a feature called 'onion skin' that is a poor man's lightboard, but works well enough for achieving the same utility. flash cs3 and lower also provide frame scrubbing , and overall looks a lot more friendly for animation than jasc.

[jam1220]

i think the animating with notecards thing is the source of a lot of your issues. if you'd really like to animate traditionally, you need to invest in some kind of lightboard , a peg puncher and peg board for your lightboard, so you can flip and roll your frames and see what you are doing more clearly.

obviously that's a bit of an investment, so if you'd prefer the digital route a program like flash has a feature called 'onion skin' that is a poor man's lightboard, but works well enough for achieving the same utility. flash cs3 and lower also provide frame scrubbing , and overall looks a lot more friendly for animation than jasc.

well you know what they say to each their own

[rtil]

...no, not in this case. the lightboard is a tried and true method of animation. your method clearly has shortcomings that make your animation suffer. you can be stubborn about it and make life more difficult for yourself, or you can take cues from the people who pioneered animation. there's a reason why 2d animation has been done the same way since nearly its conception.

if you ever want to take animation seriously, you'll have to move on to more practical applications. they certainly wouldn't let you do this in school or the industry.

[jam1220]

...no, not in this case. the lightboard is a tried and true method of animation. your method clearly has shortcomings that make your animation suffer. you can be stubborn about it and make life more difficult for yourself, or you can take cues from the people who pioneered animation. there's a reason why 2d animation has been done the same way since nearly its conception.

if you ever want to take animation seriously, you'll have to move on to more practical applications. they certainly wouldn't let you do this in school or the industry.

there's more than one way to do anything so it's fine

[BluPhoenix]

you can be stubborn about it and make life more difficult for yourself, or you can take cues from the people who pioneered animation.

there's more than one way to do anything so it's fine

[rtil]

...no, not in this case. the lightboard is a tried and true method of animation. your method clearly has shortcomings that make your animation suffer. you can be stubborn about it and make life more difficult for yourself, or you can take cues from the people who pioneered animation. there's a reason why 2d animation has been done the same way since nearly its conception.

if you ever want to take animation seriously, you'll have to move on to more practical applications. they certainly wouldn't let you do this in school or the industry.

there's more than one way to do anything so it's fine

this is partly true, but you're willingly ignoring the fundamentals of animation. surely you can understand that without the ability to properly roll through your frames before shooting them that it will prevent you from properly following the principles of animation? you're not going to get very far in animation by disregarding the rules everyone else follows.

[jam1220]

this is partly true, but you're willingly ignoring the fundamentals of animation. surely you can understand that without the ability to properly roll through your frames before shooting them that it will prevent you from properly following the principles of animation? you're not going to get very far in animation by disregarding the rules everyone else follows.

relax I'm gonna clean them later

[zwimmy]

Jam, my friend, you're entering a world of pain.