The Mana World Forums

skipy wrote:

Lizandra wrote:Is there any program available to test the movement? I was thinking of drawing some "stick-ball figures"...balls for the articulations, that's usually my method. Also i thought it would be easier to draw this and then draw the real monster on the "skelleton" of stick-ball...i don't know if there is such thing...

use gimp!!!!!
and use layers .....one movement on ech layer....



(((i have no idea if i made any sents on all)))) sleeeeeeeeeeeeeepp

Only if you Save at the format "GIF"

save the world, because Ganon is here

So far we have two developers recommending you to do the animation first before trying to lock in the shading and details so you do not have to do that hard work many times because you have to change something in the shape to fit the animation.

We also have helpful people recommending GIMP for you and telling you how to do animations in it.

We should also have enough loitering people around to help you with anything related to your piece of pixel art if you'd ask for help.

Well....sorry about: size/background colour...etc....i think i've got something...just a stick figure with the movement of the beast...critics are welcome.

Lizandra wrote:Well....sorry about: size/background colour...etc....i think i've got something...just a stick figure with the movement of the beast...critics are welcome.

looks better .....

one thing i see.. (or dont see) is what leg is what?
if you look close the movement works good just hard to see .....heres a {{{{example}}}} of how i work to see what im doing
i think if you did it in 2 colors like this your out come would put mine to shame

give it a try ....and see what you think..

good luck -skipy

I think the spineline should move a bit with the movement too. Currently the staticness pops out to me from the movement.

Yes, I think the spine should arch to the point where all four legs touch or nearly touch and then the spine should flatten back out as front and back legs separate or distance from each other.

*Gimp also has a windows version, just in case someone didn't know.

salmondine wrote:*Gimp also has a windows version, just in case someone didn't know.

that thing there i've done with it =) i already downloaded gimp =)

Lizandra wrote:

salmondine wrote:*Gimp also has a windows version, just in case someone didn't know.

that thing there i've done with it =) i already downloaded gimp =)

*Gimp also has a macintosh version, just in case someone didn't know.

i did the colours and i'm working on that spine movement...first attempts --> failure =)
1st it seemed that the spine was made of rubber, the 2nd one seemed like it was waving....
I'll continue working on this