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[Derakon]

In general, your animations would benefit from more between frames. After you did the walking animation, your others have been just the keyframes, which makes the animations very hard to read.

If you're seriously interested in animation, I cannot recommend enough that you get The Animator's Survival Kit. It's a book written by the guy in charge of making Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and it's filled with tons of great techniques and discussions on the old Warner Bros. et al animating styles. Tons of useful details.

[Davion]

If you're seriously interested in animation, I cannot recommend enough that you get The Animator's Survival Kit. It's a book written by the guy in charge of making Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and it's filled with tons of great techniques and discussions on the old Warner Bros. et al animating styles. Tons of useful details.

This.

Also The Illusion of Life. Pretty much essential.

[Jack_Bread]

I can't buy anything, unfortunately. :\

[Killas[SiN]]

Off the record,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Piracy is also an option. Not that I'm supporting it, in anyway.

[Jack_Bread]

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[Killas[SiN]]

Yeah well, back on topic:

You should indeed add more frames for the crouch. It's too jumpy.

Also, watch videos of people jumping, crouching, punching, etc. It will help you make more lucid animations.

Furthermore, try to do the actions yourself.

Is that how you swing? Is that how you crouch? Because dear God, I hope not!

[Jack_Bread]

Honestly...

Yes.

That's not a throw! That's a swing with a 1-handed weapon.

EDIT:
-Horrible Animation-
I honestly have no idea how to position the arm in the red bordered frame(the frame after it has its arm up).

[Killas[SiN]]

That's not a throw! That's a swing with a 1-handed weapon.

Oops my bad I typed the wrong thing -.-

[Jack_Bread]

Thoughts on this?
Also, I want to animate it to walk, but I can't think of how to do it. :\

ALSO, bump.

[Zai]

Thoughts on this?
Also, I want to animate it to walk, but I can't think of how to do it. :\

ALSO, bump.

Could use more shading, unless how it is right now is the style you're going for. The body looks rather flat.

[Jack_Bread]

Yeah, that's the style. But, you did remind me of a couple of parts I forgot to shade...

Does the animation look overly animated?

[Outcast Orange]

Jack Bread, I hope not to upset you, but your "crouching" animation nearly killed me,
as I had a mouth full of provolone at the time.

The walking looks good though.
I've never made a decent animation in my life.

[Jack_Bread]

Jack Bread, I hope not to upset you, but your "crouching" animation nearly killed me,
as I had a mouth full of provolone at the time.

The walking looks good though.
I've never made a decent animation in my life.

Tee hee hee. I should've edited those out, too. I no longer need criticisms on those. ;O
I've moved onto a smaller, less deformed version of those.

EDIT: Done.

[Jack_Bread]

Bump.
Stuff is slowing down here and I'm incredibly bored at home since we don't have cable/internet.
I started spriting out of boredom. (I'll get back to In the Cave at some other point. )

I've been wanting to improve animating, especially those awful ones that were here ealier. 
Here are standing and other animations for a kobold.

Spoiler: Kobold (click to show/hide)

Standing -

Walking -


Throw -


Jump -

EDIT: The first frame is jumping and the second frame is falling.
Hurt -

Here's an newer version of the first character posted here. (Ho-hum.)

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Stand -


Walk -

Animation's slow so the frames are easier to see.

Punch(it's horrible) -


Jump -

I was thinking of scrapping this and making a new body with a better posture and a NECK. (My sister keeps complaining of this. :\ )

[Outcast Orange]

Ooh.

Lots of drawing styles leave out the necks,
 especially Japanese.