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Here's my first go at a swinging animation.

It moves okay, but I'm not sure that it looks cool enough.

There were already much better swing animations in the other thread: http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1176

I would recommend you to read the whole thread to get a better feelinge of the requirements. Personally I would like you to finish the animation by Pauan by adding the missing directions.

I downloaded his sprites.

I'll work on them.

Which one am I working with here?

For me, swing2 is better than swing3, that has a innatural extesion of the leg.

Bump.

Am I incorrect in believing you guys wanted a swinging/throwing animation?

I got the one from Pauan. I can improve the anatomy and get on with it if that is the one you want.

If not, I can make something else.

Who's got the say-so?

I like the swing2 better, because swing3 has a beginning frame which is quite superfluous in my opinion.

A problem is the transmission from the last frame back to the first. a bit less elaborated legwork would maybe reduce this.

I have no problem with your vertical swing animation.

Since you can only have four directions to attack, playing a bit with your weapon in question will make the attack sector obvious. IMO it'll be more obvious and better with a vertical swing than a horizontal one. With the horizontal one, you'd always assume it to be as wide as the swing is and that is not always the case.

Point being: IMO it's easier to learn to live with an attack sector that is larger than the animation seems than the other way around.

Busy lately, but I'm going to get back to work on these sprites.

I've started filling out the form. Our hero was a bit too tall and skinny and I'm beefing him up a little to keep him more consistent with the standing sprite.

Just keeping you up-to-date.

This is my finished front view.

Is it safe to proceed with this animation from the other angles or should something be changed?

I think you should proceed with the other directions now.

Trying direction number two.

Feedback before I complexify the colors?

Colorized and done (for now).

That should work magnificently with motion blurring the weapon sprites.

Nice job on minimizing the number of frames.

If I'm seeing this correctly, the sideview frames is inconsistent with the front view.
In frontview the characters holds his sword back to his righthand-side, and then slashes forward from his righthand-side to his lefthand-side.
In sideview it looks like the character first hold his sword back to his lefthand-side, and then slash forward from his lefthand-side to his righthand-side.
It doesn't really bother me that much, and I probably wouldn't have noticed it if it were in game. I just posted it anyway thinking that inconsistency could become problematic in the future...?