Peter and his Walk-cycle!

[Bartimaeus]

Okay, meet Peter.



This is his walkcycle as far as I've done it. I've had a look at it in AGS and it looks pretty good, but there are certain things I still need to do.
For, example, someone told me once that there's a frame where I should lower the head by a pixel to make it more realistic. But I'm not too sure how to go about doing this.

He's supposed to be a 6 year old kid, carefree and slightly mischievous. His arms are meant to swing up and down like that.

Does anybody have any suggestions or comments?
If you can find a way to improve it somehow it would also be greatly appreciated. This is my first walk cycle and it took me while.


~Billy

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

The best way to improve this is to greatly reduce the number of frames you are using.  I can't stress this enough that for small animations, LESS IS MORE.  Try 6-8 frames, taking the best ones out of the 18 you have there and I guarantee you will see an improvement.  Here is a 6 frame version of your animation, note that I had to redraw each frame because his arm and leg motions did not work properly



Hope this helps.

[Bartimaeus]

Thanks man, I seriously appreciate the time you put into this.
I'll remember to use less frames.


How do I separate this do-over of yours into frames now?

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Well since it's a GIF you have the added advantage that AGS allows you to import it as seperate frames, just look around in the sprite manager "right-click" menu.

If you find nothing there, then you must not have the version where that was introduced, I disremember which version it was...

[Phemar]

For, example, someone told me once that there's a frame where I should lower the head by a pixel to make it more realistic.

Ok, so I'm just someone now. I see how it is.

Is it just me, or os he growing a beer belly?

[Bartimaeus]

Well Zor, you can't expect me to remember all the tonnes of seemingly useless crap you pump into my head.

And thank you Brisby, that's exactly what I needed.

[Babar]

Well Zor, you can't expect me to remember all the tonnes of seemingly useless crap you pump into my head.

maaaaaan....you need a smiley there. Seriously maaaan

[Phemar]

Smileys are really lame.

[Ubel]

I never use smileys...Ã,  :

[Ubel]

And I never double post.

[Phemar]

CJs cash is going down the drain ...

[Frogie]

hey billy

You walk cycle is realy cool i thik progZmax is right the arm and leg movements are too large. aother than that it is realy cool.

Frogie

[Bartimaeus]

Thanks frogie,

I just wanted to emphazie the carelessness in his arm movements.
I'm definitely going to use progmaxes redraw but I think I'll edit the arm movements still - even if only a little bit.