, there's some good clarity from your animation. No doubt about what's going on there.

The animation, however, looks a little unconvincing in some places. Here's a few suggestions to help improve the shot:

Ravenseye

 

Birds feet movement are blah

• - It gets there a little too quickly, given the amount of steps taken and the length of the legs.
  
  - You've said it!: The motion of the walk is un-bird like. If you ever happen to watch little tiny vertically-challenged birds, you'll notice that they don't often 'walk' when they're on the ground. They hop. Consider some of the different ways birds move on ground:
  
  With the length of legs and stride little birds have, it'd be a waste of energy to walk everywhere. So instead, they lunge down quickly and zip forth. This quick downward-lunge gives them the energy to quickly propel themselves forward. It's economy, baby!
  
  Other, larger birds such as penguins, geese, ducks, or penguins might waddle, using their body to build/reduce momentum. (their weight would make hopping difficult) Once they've got enough speed they just pedal their legs and it's smooth sailing. Birds with longer legs such as storks or pelicans have a less pronounced waddle, but it is still a definite part of their movement.
  
  One more trick birds use to maintain momentum is the back and forth 'head-thrust'. This is typically seen on birds with necks long enough to give capable thrust.
  
  - Combination hop/stride
  

• - When your bird jumps off of the rock, it doesn't appear to build enough anticipation to make the rest of the jump convincing. If you watch closely at the end of the above video reference you'll notice how much the bird compresses its legs before takeoff. Since you're accounting for both a takeoff and a transmutation involving exponential weight-gain, it'd be best if the bird had a little more 'squash' before the leap.
  
  

• - The blast from the pistols should have a noticeable effect on his flight at the very least!
  

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A good first push on that walk cycle--- you managed to keep the figure quite consistent.

Although!-- the movement itself looks a little unnatural:



If you watch runners at a track or otherwise, you'll notice that their motion will be just about opposite, more like this:



This makes quick sense if you think about these

• [size=10]- TRAVERSE
  - LIFT[/size]
  

Tinsterr

Nov 13 2006, 04:03 AM

Nice loop JTPedcsakas!

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Here Im going to show you a liiittle sample of the movie Im working on... It's a crappy yeah... and scetchie. It's not finnished, because I think his running looks weird. If you look closly in the beginning you see that I colored the dude. But my hand hurts from drawing now.. so I think Im going to take a little.. long brake.

http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rehanspringrf0.swf

Make sure it has loaded before you criticise it



Edit: I desided to animate it all over again, 'cus it all look weird. When he falls and trying to get on the track and then when he turns, and the running overall...

CLiNK

Nov 12 2006, 11:25 PM

Looks good man, you are improving fast!

Tinsterr

Nov 13 2006, 04:03 AM

Nice loop JTPedcsakas!

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Here Im going to show you a liiittle sample of the movie Im working on... It's a crappy yeah... and scetchie. It's not finnished, because I think his running looks weird. If you look closly in the beginning you see that I colored the dude. But my hand hurts from drawing now.. so I think Im going to take a little.. long brake.

http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rehanspringrf0.swf

Make sure it has loaded before you criticise it



Edit: I desided to animate it all over again, 'cus it all look weird. When he falls and trying to get on the track and then when he turns, and the running overall...

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Who is chasing him?

The first action in the shot where he falls, gets up, and then stumbles again doesn't read quite right. There's too few frames, so it looks as if he bounces off of the ground into his next stumble. Let's examine your spacing:

• -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |Frame1|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Frame30|
  ACTION:________^ENTERS FRAME^____^FALLS DOWN^____^GETS UP^^FALLS^
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  It should read a little more like this:
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |Frame1|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Frame40|
  ACTION:________^ENTERS FRAME^____^FALLS DOWN^_____^GETS UP^________^FALLS^
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  

^These are all approximate frames^

Draw in more inbetweens to seperate the actions of the trip and the following stumble clearer.

His running looks un-natural when going away from the camera. I would highly suggest shooting some reference footage to study of a similar action in a similar setting so you can get a concrete example of the timing and imagery.

akpaintslinger

 

That's an interesting shot, Tinsterr.

Who is chasing him?

The first action in the shot where he falls, gets up, and then stumbles again doesn't read quite right.  There's too few frames, so it looks as if he bounces off of the ground into his next stumble.  Let's examine your spacing:

• -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |Frame1|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Frame30|
  ACTION:________^ENTERS FRAME^____^FALLS DOWN^____^GETS UP^^FALLS^
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  It should read a little more like this:
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |Frame1|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Frame40|
  ACTION:________^ENTERS FRAME^____^FALLS DOWN^_____^GETS UP^________^FALLS^
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  
  
  
  
  

^These are all approximate frames^

Draw in more inbetweens to seperate the actions of the trip and the following stumble clearer.

His running looks un-natural when going away from the camera.  I would highly suggest shooting some reference footage to study of a similar action in a similar setting so you can get a concrete example of the timing and imagery.