So I was working on this sprite and I wanted to animate it but I'm having a bit of trouble cause I don't know how to successfully draw frame by frame or just at all a good walking view for people or things smaller than my normal sized characters. I really need help and I don't just want to brush the character off. :(
[imgzoom]http://www.pictureshoster.com/files/fv9my3cyu1pvkqoehrmp.png[/imgzoom]
It's not the big one but obviously, rather the small one. I just have so much trouble animating a waling view.
Even if one could make a skeleton for me to draw over that'll be nice cause then I could reuse it again and again.
If you need someone to do work for you then the proper place is to recruit help HERE (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?board=20.0). If you want help with work you have done, like an existing walk cycle you have put real effort into, then this is the place to get help with it.
I will give you a day or two to work on and provide your own walkcycle in this post for feedback, otherwise I will move this thread.
Sorry Progz, I haven't got around to actually making one since I've been really busy but I'ma give a go right now.
(http://www.pictureshoster.com/files/rcnvbsbd8a7nnb1sonsd.png)
I came up with this.
Here, I went ahead and made it into an animated gif so other people could see what you did:
[imgzoom]http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr218/ProgZmax/pubguy.gif[/imgzoom]
All I did was add some bobbing to it. It's not bad for a first try but the angle he's standing and the way his legs are moving suggest two different directions. His standing pose would indicate he is walking south-west while the legs essentially move straight left and right rather than from the foreground to the background, so if he is going to walk straight left you should redraw him so his entire body and face are facing that direction. It's fine to have something like this for a standing pose, though.
Hum..your right, it's not bad for a first try, thanks.
And I totally see what you mean with the whole direction thingy as it was also said before with my other animating styles. However I sorta like the way it looks, sure it would take sometime to go back fix all the other view but still I think it looks ok :)