Penguinset: Walkcycle + 1st background

Chronos · Fri 25/06/2004 07:32:38

Hi all,

This is my first try as a character designer.
It took me a whole night and about 6 coffees to achieve this but i made it, and i m now working on the walkcycle.

*Ok the walkcycle is finished, now i'd like to improve the movements on side view and add shading effect, if you could help me a bit with this...

*I also need help for the background (like adding buildings behind the window,make the bed look like a real one =p and correct perspective where needed).

Any help or critics would be greatly appreciated!

Tux from scratch

LordHart · Fri 25/06/2004 07:48:22

I can't see anything... $:-\$

Chronos · Fri 25/06/2004 08:46:45

Thx for the tip, is that ok now?

Haddas · Fri 25/06/2004 08:48:25

I like it alot, although I'd like to see them animated...

viktor · Fri 25/06/2004 08:56:40

What do you mean with not wery impresive. This looks prety good. I think that the night and all those coffes were worth it. I'd realy like to see the other views.

Chronos · Fri 25/06/2004 09:45:19

Thanks for the comments

If you look carefully you ll see little animations like moving arms,shoulders and lips?(dunno the exact word) but i guess you meant a walkcycle...err i ll try to make it move but it sounds a bit hard for a beginner like me, maybe a few more coffees will help out

I ll edit the first post when i ll have some work done.

Laters

Gilbert · Fri 25/06/2004 09:48:23

Actually I think he mean dumping the frames into an animated gif, so we can see them in action directly.

Anyways, nice job!

Chronos · Fri 25/06/2004 10:00:22

I see...but unfortunatly i don't have any gif animator, if anyone could make it for me that would be cool,would spare me the pain of repeatedly editing the views in ags in order to test animations lol =p
Maybe you have a great freeware for gif anims, in that case i would really appreciate you share it

Haddas · Fri 25/06/2004 10:07:24

I tried making an animation out of it, but they weren't that aligned, so it looked horrible, but atleast here you can find a free gif maker called unFREEz. it's under 50kb if I remember it, nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.

Chronos · Fri 25/06/2004 12:23:13

Yeah thanks for the program, i made a few gifs out of the mini animations i had, i hope you like them!

Ben · Fri 25/06/2004 18:12:00

Cute

The only real problem I see is with this one:

When he looks down at his laptop, it looks like only his hat is moving. I think if you moved his head down a bit in that frame, it would look a little better.

Other than that, it's great.

Haddas · Fri 25/06/2004 18:29:12

also, the hat seems thinner when he looks down. when looking forward, it stretches from edge to edge, but not when looking down.

Chronos · Sat 26/06/2004 02:22:37

Yep right, i have these things to fix, and i m currently making the walk cycle, the last gif on the right is the fist try, just a preview, i will upload the gifs of the walkcycle asa i finish it.
Thank you all! I'm glad you like my lil Tux, this is a great encouragement

Gilbert · Mon 28/06/2004 02:38:26

That's great, when I looked at your old pictures I didn't expect his legs to be that long (actually real penguins don't have long legs either), but I think that's your style, so it's not a crit.

viktor · Mon 28/06/2004 11:55:08

no ofense but the left and right walkcicle doesn't look al that good
It doesn't look like he's walking at all. It actualy looks like he's going to knee down...
But maybee it looks like that now that he is walking in place. Becouse it looks realy akward...

Chronos · Mon 28/06/2004 13:09:14

That's the problem actually,he looks like he's either kicking someone's ass or about to knee down as you said, i'm having a lot of trouble with the side walkcycle but i might end up with something acceptable.

viktor · Mon 28/06/2004 13:39:16

Quote from: Chronos on Mon 28/06/2004 13:09:14
That's the problem actually,he looks like he's either kicking someone's ass or about to knee down as you said, i'm having a lot of trouble with the side walkcycle but i might end up with something acceptable.

If I would know how to put gif animations together I could help you.

pixelcat · Mon 28/06/2004 13:41:35

I really like the walkcycle, though the side could use a few more frames to smooth it out so it doesn't look like kicking, which was mentioned.

The background's very good. Few suggestions:

- Showing the side of the computer tower doesn't seem necessary.
- The bed headboard/footboard could use some width.
- Door could use a frame.
- Pillows could use some work. Larger & rectangular.
- Maybe add wrinkles to sheets.
- Chair for desk? Might get in the way if you use the computer, though.

Other than that, very nice. Perspective seems right as well. Nice work.

viktor · Mon 28/06/2004 14:06:34

hey I took a quick course in gif animating (a friend showed me how to do it) and I edited your walkcicle a bit.
Hope it helps

sedriss · Mon 28/06/2004 22:03:22

Nice edit. Add a little bounce and it'll be excellent!