Walkcycles! Today: Up & Down walking

abstauber · Fri 22/10/2010 14:32:34

@cat: oops, right! I've fixed that.

@markbilly: I've tried to adjust the shading on the up-walkcycle. But on the whole sprite? Do you mean the arms?

@Andail: Thanks a lot

Although I've to admit that I had a very close look at some artwork provided by ProgZ.
I haven't tried the sprite inside the game yet, but if reducing it to only 6 frames might be an option.

markbilly · Sat 23/10/2010 10:18:10

I meant use the shading to really stronly show which parts of the body are moving away/towards the screen.

This is one of mine. (You have got the body twist down to a better art than me though, I must say!)

Wonkyth · Sat 23/10/2010 10:28:49

Markbilly, I think the problem is that the velocity of the arms and the twist of the torso reverses direction to quickly.

Calin Leafshade · Sat 23/10/2010 12:06:19

markbilly , thats not a walkcycle. That's a strut-cycle.

markbilly · Sun 24/10/2010 14:52:37

Well, what can I say? My protagonist likes to strut!

Anyway, we should talk about abstauber's walk-cycle. My point about the shading still stands I think...

abstauber · Sun 24/10/2010 16:41:29

Hehe, yeah I already took a look at your sprite in the Longevity Gene Thread

I see that you only use the highlight on the frames closer to the "camera", which makes it easy to distinguish between the 4 front frames and the 4 back frames. In your example it looks good on the down-cycle, but I'm not so sure about the up-cycle. But as you've seen I'm quite doubtful when it comes to shading.

About the body rotation: your protagonist might look a bit odd, because the rotation is 3px (center, left, center, right) and no frame is preparing the extremes. So I'd rather take 2px (slight-left, left, slight-left ,slight-right ,right, slight-right), also the waistcoat should skew instead of just moving 1 full px vertically.

Quote from: markbilly on Sun 24/10/2010 14:52:37
Anyway, we should talk about abstauber's walk-cycle.

Oh.. err.. sorry

Thanks for input, I'll try to reduce the highlights a bit more and see how it turns out.

markbilly · Sun 24/10/2010 17:28:34

Hey, this has been pretty damn useful actually. I didn't realise I forgot the 'in between' shading on the up-cycle, so the highlights flick on and off, rather than being continuous.

Can't believe I missed that.

I may change the waistcoat thing, too.

ANYWAY: I've taken a look at the most recent edit zoomed up and you've pretty much cracked it on the arms. If you do the same with the legs - i.e. not be afraid to let there be no highlighted area for the frames with the leg furthest back - you're sorted.

abstauber · Sun 24/10/2010 18:31:02

win/win

Ookki · Wed 27/10/2010 12:43:41

Sorry for making a little hijack but how many phases do you have in your animations (markabilly & abstauber) and what are they? I'm trying to make my character a frontal walkcycle but it's a mess. Your anims look smooth enough for my needs (actually abstauber's anim is way beyond anything I can achieve in years).

abstauber · Wed 27/10/2010 13:26:00

@Ooki
That's how markbilly did it, I'm also using 8 frames - so I'm more or less doing the same thing. His work is just much more educational

And don't worry, Pixel Art is very good learnable. For animations it's best to find a nice piece of software to flip the frame. In other word: don't use paint

GraphicsGale is nice and free. ProMotion is awesome, but pricey. ASE (free) might also be an option.

@markbilly
I hope it's okay to post this, else just PM me and I take it down again.

markbilly · Wed 27/10/2010 16:17:42

@abstauber @Ooki That's fine, I just hope it can help.

Ookki · Wed 27/10/2010 16:54:26

@abstauer
Hey, thanks! I'll study these frames like no tomorrow. Yeah, I'm using graphics gale, it fits me great.

@markbilly
And thanks for letting him use your animations to teach me.

markbilly · Thu 28/10/2010 11:15:46

Just don't go thinking they are the be-all-and-end-all. You can do a lot more with a walk-cycle in terms of character than I have here. They are still very basic.

subspark · Thu 28/10/2010 22:02:27

These walkcycles of mine are old and now obsolete, but perhaps they will be of some help to you.

Cheers,
Sparky.

abstauber · Fri 29/10/2010 14:13:12

@Sparky

Very cool! Finally I come to see some of your work. I've only seen that 2 Adlanto screens you've posted ages ago.

In any case you have a less jolly walkcycle floating around, I'd be dying to see them too

subspark · Sat 13/11/2010 11:53:05

Hmm. I have a few but I'm away from my main PC right now.
If you want to see more of my work, check out my thread.

Oh Wait! Damn directory is broken. I'll have to fix that when I get back from Brisbane.

Cheers,
Sparky.