Metro's Beginner Pivot Animation Thread

[Metro]

My thread is currently under construction. Please do not lock it.

[Pinkot]

yoour walk looks pretty good except that its stiff, you should move every joint in each frame and also work on foot placment. Your walk was somewhat smooth though, but keep practicing.
I hope I helped.
Courtesy?

[Metro]

yoour walk looks pretty good except that its stiff, you should move every joint in each frame and also work on foot placment. Your walk was somewhat smooth though, but keep practicing.
I hope I helped.
Courtesy?

Yeah, I noticed that it was a bit stiff. The foot placement was a bit shaky, so I'll definitely work on that.

Courtesy returned.

[Pinkot]

thats not exactly what courtesy is, its when you coment on my thread because I commented on yours.
that's okay though. it made me laugh everyone loves to laugh.

[Metro]

thats not exactly what courtesy is, its when you coment on my thread because I commented on yours.
that's okay though. it made me laugh everyone loves to laugh.

What? I did comment on your thread. Ha ha.

[PivotDewd]

Your anims are pretty cool. But you should work really hard on easing and flow man. Look it up on the tut section. Overall, med beg. Keep going!
Courtz returned.

[Sniperthe0ne]

foot placement needs working on and also you need to work on easing you animations. i'll say low beginner just keep practicing and you will improve.

[Mars]

I noticed that you checked the Darren's tut
Those basics tests looks like Darren's but you did it with your own stick, and like all the beginners you have to work on the basics.
Its stiff (much on the back), sometimes its shaky (also footplacements).
Well, keep it up and watch more tuts too !

[Princess Luna]

Low Beginner.

I would say many suggestions, but lets have you animation improved one step at a time.

From what I see, your animations are still pretty choppy. You probably used Pivot for a little now, yes? It appears that you read Darren's/Baha's tutorial and tried to animate his example.

I see that you started to grasp the concept of smooth animating, but you still have not perfected it for in the punch animtion, the legs were shaky and are very choppy, and the arms were great until it came back down to the stickman's side. You must focus on all parts of the stickman to animate great. Animate with this type of spacing:

|-|--|---|----|---|--|-|
| represents frames.
- represents amount of space.

It is called easing. Easing is when you move slowly, speed up and slow down on one movement, yes? Try to focus on that concept for now.

Arms: When he finished punching, make the fall a bit faster and for the other arm, add easing when that falls.

Legs: Don't ignore the legs! The legs are sliding across the floor unnaturally. It is shaky. Try to keep feet in one place on the floor when the stickman takes a step. And apply easing on the legs.

The body: It moved across the screen as if it was like this:

|-|----|--|------|--|---|-|

Keep the body in general go smoothly across the screen.


Courtesy returned.

[Metro]

Low Beginner.

I would say many suggestions, but lets have you animation improved one step at a time.

From what I see, your animations are still pretty choppy. You probably used Pivot for a little now, yes? It appears that you read Darren's/Baha's tutorial and tried to animate his example.

I see that you started to grasp the concept of smooth animating, but you still have not perfected it for in the punch animtion, the legs were shaky and are very choppy, and the arms were great until it came back down to the stickman's side. You must focus on all parts of the stickman to animate great. Animate with this type of spacing:

|-|--|---|----|---|--|-|
| represents frames.
- represents amount of space.

It is called easing. Easing is when you move slowly, speed up and slow down on one movement, yes? Try to focus on that concept for now.

Arms: When he finished punching, make the fall a bit faster and for the other arm, add easing when that falls.

Legs: Don't ignore the legs! The legs are sliding across the floor unnaturally. It is shaky. Try to keep feet in one place on the floor when the stickman takes a step. And apply easing on the legs.

The body: It moved across the screen as if it was like this:
[quote:11x5i3k2]|-|----|--|------|--|---|-|

Keep the body in general go smoothly across the screen.


Courtesy returned.[/quote:11x5i3k2]

People, this is the kind of feedback that really helps me improve my animating skill with pivot. Thanks for the great feedback Predator.