Aight Madmax, here's a tad of critique on that shooter.
(PS: I'll be assuming it's in a finished state)


So I'll be blunt, there's quite a few problems with your animation.

The first is that the motion is very spasmy or short lived.
For example, the front shoulder dips down after shooting, that's a spasm. Another example is when the front leg flies into the air for no real reason.

Many key spaces, like the white area around the shoulder, change size and shape constantly.
This is good for making the recoil look like it's reverberating throughout the shirt, but it makes for lotsa jitters, since white stands out from the other colors.

The head, when moving, is very choppy... this is easily fixed by taking duplicate frames and changing them slightly to be a tad closer to the next/previous.

The leg and vest.
Well, the leg really just spasms around to be honest.
Then the vest, just think of it scientifically.
The guy is moving to the left, and the loose clothing is trying to stay in the same place/pixel. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion etc.
Your vest's edge moves to the right, making it look like it's expanding.

The hand that's reloading, quite frankly, looks like it's teleporting. More frames! MORE FRAMES!

When the shooter slams his barrel back into place, that'd be a good place to put in a small effect and make him over-do it, causing the gun to point higher for a second.

(And why is there a line disconnecting the hand and arm?...)


Here's a quickie edit:

(TOOTHPICK >:D)

Though my edit isn't perfect, I'd like to think it's a step in the right direction. I honestly recommend looking through the changes frame by frame.

(Also Madmax, If you really need a gif animation program, graphicsgale is actually kinda nice now that I'm giving it another try. You need the full version, which costs money, to get Gif Animation support - but it's pretty nice. However, the full version shouldn't be too hard/expensive to obtain. If you need help with anything gimme a ring at CrazyMLC2 at gmail)

>haven & hearth

I'm just gonna tell you right now man. Stay. Away. From. That.

User was warned for this post - Off topic for no reason. Don't do that bro - p3lb0x

SOMEONE'S PLAYING A GAME I DON'T LIKE!
I BETTER TELL THEM TO QUIT!

User was informally warned for this post - That isn't nice Lizard, snide comments like this go to PMs - p3lb0x

User was also warned formally for this post - Going off topic - p3lb0x

I ♥♥♥♥ loved H&H. I was like...a ♥♥♥♥ tank. It was awesome.

There's a reason to why I ignored your posts and that's one of them.

+ It's not so much as the game I don't like.
It's just that the community was nothing but /v/ and /tg/. Pretty funny. But it got pretty old and annoying since the main developers kept taking away and putting crap back in.

Back on topic from this derailment.

I made this one awhile ago. It's one of my favorites so I wanted to show others.

Three soldiers. Not quite happy with the marksman, but can't be bothered to do any more with them now.

H&H is a wilderness survival with crafting so I'm obligated to like it. Haven't met any 4channers, just a few helpful guys. The art designer needs to take some classes though.


It's amazing what you can do with something in a few hours that I've been struggling with for a week. Great edit and critique. As tedious as it was, more frames meant more time, I decided to live with a lot of the choppiness, I didn't do much refining of the linework before coloring so that's where a lot of the choppiness fell through. One thing about your edit though, the shell falls too fast now, probably just something you overlooked.

Love the toothpick BTW.

Yeah there was a chanboom on that game. Clan and everything, busted out of it and found a guy named tarnbook or something, forgot his name. I miss him. ; _;


But, did you mean you were having issues with framerate, or just messed up once? I got macromedia fireworks here. Good stuff for gif editing if you want it.

I had to take the .avi from GraphicsGale and put all the frames into Jasc studio and edit the speed because the version of GraphicsGale I have doesn't allow .gifs.

Here's a slightly less rushed example if you want it...
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k42/c ... Edit-3.gif

And like I said, if you need help with stuffs, send me an email. (crazymlc2 at gmail.com)

My first ever sprite <3

If you think that's a piece of ♥♥♥♥ then look at my second one.

Mini zombie anims.

Dammit Lizard. I seriously hope you're planning to make a game out of those, or I might do it myself.

Making a game with Geti.

Feels so unsatisfying so far.

the black line next to the cabin is the size of a person.