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Where is it difficult to grasp the concept of keeping foot in the same place if it is meant to be there, if somebody is walking along on pavement their feet don't bounce around unless they have some sort of a problem. You keep it in the same spot, here is a quick example I made.
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This is a bad example the foot placement is off, the spacing is too heavy and the limbs are stiff.
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This is a better example, not my best work. But notice how the foot is in the same place until the end where it is preparing to move as the other one begins to plant itself on the ground.

That is foot placement.
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Camelshark wrote:Where is it difficult to grasp the concept of keeping foot in the same place if it is meant to be there, if somebody is walking along on pavement their feet don't bounce around unless they have some sort of a problem. You keep it in the same spot, here is a quick example I made.
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This is a bad example the foot placement is off, the spacing is too heavy and the limbs are stiff.
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This is a better example, not my best work. But notice how the foot is in the same place until the end where it is preparing to move as the other one begins to plant itself on the ground.

That is foot placement.

haha thanks it sort of makes sense now
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Your poses seem pretty nice but there are several glaring issues with your spacing and flow. Things jump around too quickly and shake more than should; try to spend more time analyzing each frame and the rate at which each body part is moving. If on one frame your leg is only moving one pixel, but on the next it's moving 50, you're doing something wrong. You don't need to overease and make things slow, but you do need to give your characters some sense of muscle control, and give the viewer enough time to process what is happening.
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You don't need to remove your older animations, and you need to keep them in the same spot, its better, but you need to keep them flat on the ground when they are supposed to be flat on the ground.
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there's nothing to add to ipwnall's advice, that's pretty much everything you should care about. Just practice and try to pay attention to easing, spacing etc. It may be hard at first but you'll get better for sure (thumbsup)
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blowb wrote:there's nothing to add to ipwnall's advice, that's pretty much everything you should care about. Just practice and try to pay attention to easing, spacing etc. It may be hard at first but you'll get better for sure (thumbsup)

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The animation was very awkward. It lacks foot placement and is very stiff.
Look at Darren's Tutorial I guarantee that it will help. (thumbsup)

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Yeah... uhh Camel pretty much explained everything so id say low beginner
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If you are going to PM me asking me to see if you got it right, why not think about it? Look at animations in Intermediates, Veterans, and Elites, they all have correct footplacement. It is one of the requirements for a move up because, poor footplacement generally leads to shakiness. Keep the foot in the same place, keep the same two nodes on the ground when the foot is supposed to stay there, if somebody is going to kick, they take one foot off the ground and use the other to support them, they do not move around. Please, next time you PM me asking me to look at your thread, think about and make sure you have got that down before bothering.
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Hey hoo.

You need to pay attention on shakeness and some movements Stop and Go. When you going to do a mov, try to syncronize it with the next mov, don't stop the stickman.

Practice so much. Train physics with a ball, and easing. After train with the stickman's joints.


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Low Beg. But I think if you follow the steps correctly you will be ranked med beg or high ;)
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Sorry for the late reply xD I was writing my response the other day but my parents called me away from the computer and I ended up distracted.

Your animations have potential, but you have a very long way to go before you'll reach inters (Unless you're a fast learner). The main thing you lack is easing, but to be fair, you don't need massive amounts of easing to be good depending on your animating style.

At your level, I think you should still be working on the more basic areas, like fixing shakiness and improving your poses. I'm sure everyone's heard this before, but try to move every joint on your stickman in each frame of a movement. I've noticed in your animation that on many frames parts of your stickmen will stop moving, at least relative to the segment it is attached to. This makes your stickman look stiff, which isn't a good look. It is important to all styles of animating that your stickman is dynamic, so you must learn to move more parts of your stickman at a time to improve.

Easing is important to, but that can come later. Too many Beginners these days focus on easing and try to learn that BEFORE the other basics, which is never a good idea. It's really hard for beginners to learn the basics after they'e committed to copious amounts of over-easing (I know from my own experience). Work on improving your poses to solve stiffness, and try to reduce shakiness as much as possible for now.

Low Beginner, but I think you have a lot of potential (:
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You should work on the basics like easing and stiffness.
Low beginner for now!
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Kyoku wrote:You should work on the basics like easing and stiffness.
Low beginner for now!
Sorry for the lazy post :c

Yeah sure Ok But Yes i Finally Updated
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