Does anyone know how to animate dogs?

Legge · Mon 17/05/2004 17:00:14

Can somebody animate this dog(Walking only)?

dasjoe · Mon 17/05/2004 17:33:53

look, he moves:

seriously: try looking at this one

Legge · Mon 17/05/2004 17:34:23

thanks...

HillBilly · Mon 17/05/2004 20:02:44

Quote from: Legge on Mon 17/05/2004 17:00:14
Can somebody animate this dog(Walking only)?

What? Like, doing it for you? You'll never learn how to animate that way!

shbaz · Mon 17/05/2004 23:51:17

Did you draw that dog? You can't just rip artwork from anywhere man, you're going to have to learn to draw sometimes.

MrColossal · Mon 17/05/2004 23:58:29

I don't see why he'll have to, Night of the Hermit was made with many many ripped sprites

if this is how he chooses to work at the moment, than that's that, no?

shbaz · Tue 18/05/2004 00:23:51

Quote from: MrColossal on Mon 17/05/2004 23:58:29
I don't see why he'll have to, Night of the Hermit was made with many many ripped sprites

if this is how he chooses to work at the moment, than that's that, no?

Somewhat, he's going to need to learn SOMETHING, isn't he?

Legge, ever heard the saying, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime?"

You keep asking for fish, when you need to learn how to paint or animate your own sprites.

Check 'em out.

Tutorials in the Critics lounge

The big list of paint programs (also Critics lounge)

You asked for a 3d sprite the other day.. so maybe you're interested in that? If so, go to blender.org and you'll find a link to the manual on the left sidebar. At blender3d.org you will be able to download Blender (3mb). Pretty much everyone here hates it, but I learned on it and maybe that's why the interface makes sense to me.

Look, it's really frustrating when you can't draw any good and you see other people's stuff looking so awesome.. but they all started with crap skills too. It took practice.

Animating isn't so tough either, if you learn to use layers in a program like Gimp (it's not the best animating tool, but a start).

evenwolf · Tue 18/05/2004 00:26:54

There are two ways I can think of:

First and best: Go watch dogs at the park and make notes on how dogs move.

Second and slightly helpful: Google!

How not to animate a dog:

How to goofily animate a dog:

So as you can see, animating a dog realistically can be quite difficult. Good luck!

Legge · Tue 18/05/2004 18:35:55

umm...but when i try to enter the "GIMP" link i cant enterÃ,Â $:-\$ do you got any suggestions on a good animating program?

* Goes to google to search for a animating program.

still please reply here if you find any good program

shbaz · Tue 18/05/2004 23:58:57

Quote from: Legge on Tue 18/05/2004 18:35:55
umm...but when i try to enter the "GIMP" link i cant enterÃ,Â $:-\$

If it's not a different color then chances are it's not a link

Here, http://www.gimp.org

Be SURE to download and READ the manual - it isn't an intuitive program.

It's a very big program, I hope you have broadband internet service (cable or DSL).

Moox · Wed 19/05/2004 00:02:30

barbarosa gif animator, freeware search download.com

Minimi · Wed 19/05/2004 00:05:58

Quote from: Legge on Mon 17/05/2004 17:00:14
Can somebody animate this dog(Walking only)?

That picture is ripped! I'm not sure from where yet, but I have seen it before! AArgh, legge... do your own graphics! I makes me really mad! I'm doing also my best on making my own graphics, wich took me 10 hours to animate 1 character, but atleast I did it, and it looks great... so get to work!! It does not matter weither you dog looks more like a fish... but it's about the fact that its your own work!

shbaz · Wed 19/05/2004 00:08:15

Quote from: Minimi on Wed 19/05/2004 00:05:58
Quote from: Legge on Mon 17/05/2004 17:00:14
Can somebody animate this dog(Walking only)?

That picture is ripped!

Which was already mentioned, and I believe he's going to try to do something his self now, so calm down. DG's "tag team" analogy wasn't so far off.

Minimi · Wed 19/05/2004 00:14:31

Sorry, didn't read his last post!

Here is a link to the program I'm using for drawing graphics.
Graphics Gale : http://www.tempest-j.com/gale/e/

and about The Gimp first install the gimp by this link : http://files.akl.lt/Grafika_Foto/GIMP/gimp-2.0/gimp-2.0.1-i586-setup-1.zip

and then download also this GTK and install it!
http://files.akl.lt/Grafika_Foto/GIMP/gtk+-2.2/gtk+-2.2.4-20040124-setup.zip

Goodluck!

LGM · Wed 19/05/2004 00:25:35

Actually, it's the other way around

veryweirdguy · Wed 19/05/2004 08:50:48

I always feel guilty when I click a link to the Gimp......'cos I know my dad's gonna come later to look throught the history for something & see 'www.gimp.org'. Just HOW am I gonna explain this one?