Yay

Your image is not showing up for me Urch, maybe try hosting it on imgur, photobucket or equiv.

Here's the wise man from Suckerpunch (http://i.imgur.com/w0hLT.jpg). Admittedly the shapes and contours are traced from the reference image, because I'm a bit lazy.



Shading and detailing could be better in places I think. I've worked on it for quite a while now though and am bored with it, so I'm calling it done.

At first I thought that was a fuzzy screenshot, holy ♥♥♥♥ man. Great work so far.

I'm using GraphicsGale. I'm already really used to animating, been doing it since I was seven. In fact I need to fix a couple things in that walk cycle after waking up the next morning to view it.


Adriaan, I love those hands.

S'more rough drawing.



I think her tail feathers are a bit odd.

Whoah Lizard... That's... That's.. I'd like to play that.

Me too, hopefully it will get actually get finished.

Don't worry it will

Does anyone know how to make parallax scrolling animations? I know you need several layers, all moving at different speeds, but what program or how do I get an image to scroll sideways?

An example of parallax scrolling (not mine)

You move the closest layer three pixels right per frame
The second layer two pixels
The third one pixel
etc

Do this until you have reached a number of frames sufficient to loop all the images to the starting position

Flash will automate this all for you but much prefers vectors to bitmaps and isn't very good at saving bitmaps nicely
Any other program like GIMP will make you do all the moving by hand but it is easier to export a nicer looking result using graphics not drawn in-program

Unless you're more specific I can't really help you more than that

Thanks for the compliments!

That's an awesome looking game Lizard, it's a sidescrolling platformer/shooter?

Actually in that particular image there are three layers, the static background, the middle layer and the closest layer, which is travelling at exactly twice the speed of the middle layer, meaning there are far fewer frames required to loop it (one lap of the middle layer).

I was talking in general rather than that image in specific
Obviously the speed and number of layers isn't going to be the same every time