Legend of Iya. Bearos walk cycle. :: Pixel Art Detail

Nice moving fluidity!

Oh god... Your work just look amazing...

Impressive!

the animation of his walkcycle is soooo damn good. like his heaviness and the funny way he moves his mouth.

I like the really heavy feel, you can see the weight of the hammer and of the character with the way he moves. The animation is kind of choppy but, it could be said that that fits with the same theme.

hey can i use it for an university work? don´t worry I just wanna show it like an example for game developers, I gonna give you credits, maybe use a mock up, please answer me early than you can do it.

I need your mail but you don´t put it on your profile. Sorry my English I hope you understand me

ugh, this is just sex. you finally got it man. i remember back like 5 years ago, compared to what youre doing now, we were just drawing stick men and stick twigs and stuff.  I dont want to crit the motion to the degree of adarias or anything, i can see what hes saying for sure, i for one love the exaggeration on this particular character though.

This is incredible, I would lose my mind. Faved.

Oh! This is beautyfull!

cute, smooth, toony, WITH BLACK OUTLINES great animation... goddamn.... I love it!

Ptoing
That's what I kept telling my programmer.. but since this is being developed as a demo pitch, using homebrew tools, and if picked up will have to be recodded from scratch
, he doesn't wanna bother writing a 2D-3D engine. Bummer.

Don't ell me you are actually using the 2D engine on the DS to make this. Use the 3D engine, for heavens sake. Just map stuff onto flat quads. You can have bigger sprites, you get free rotation and scaling as opposed to only a certain number of sprites at the same time, you can have more background layers with 3d planes and so on. It is 1000% better. You also do not have to worry about shit like doublesize sprites.

You're a star, what else can I say? I'm mighty impressed...

having things move suddenly is good, it adds wight.  having things move jerkily is bad - the eye cannot follow the motion and spends the next several frames reorienting.  do this several times per animation and you get something very difficult to look at.

the frames im specifically talking about are 4-5, 10-11, and 14-1, when things (mostly arm and head) suddenly jerk (not fall or spring) into positions that they will animate around for the next few frames, and then jerk again.  Fix these transitions and it will be perfect.

Thank you very much guys for all your kind words and constructive criticism.
Adarias - I don't quite agree that the jerky parts of the animation actually detract from the sense of weight, in fact I think they emphasize it, as a person (or a bear: ) would have to gather all their effort into one quick jerk of a movement under so much load. I do agree with your point about the hammer grip - unfortunately, the sprite is 64x64 (hardware limited on DS), and I already spent too much time on it just to redesign it. I will try to work out the grip problem in the animation that will really matter - the attack one.
As I said - this is far from perfect... but it already took me too long to do: )

it's a little funny how there are maybe 3 distinct timeframes where it is animated very smooth, but between any of those 3 points it jumps like a crazyperson in a way that really adds jerkiness instead of life or weight.  Also, if you have space in the box, i would extend the length of the hammer's haft so that he has a better grip on it , large crushing weapons like hammers and axes when used in battle are held much closer to center than you'ld think, with the off-hand clasped lightly  where the weapon hand is currently gripping it.  Even a typical hammer or hatchet is held farther up.

what that doesn't take away from is the great design, pixelwork, and overall presentation of this piece.  It's really ace work.

make him ATTACKKKKK

 

WOWZY! Utterly amazing! FAV!!

It seems that his step facing towards us is heavier than the other step. You could make his head droop more (or what it's called). Personally I'd much rather have a smoother step, but it's probably not what you're going for.

You win the internet.

I dunno, imo, there is not enough attention on really good keyframes and it's overanimated.

I love you style man. When will your game be done?

Amazing.        

Damn, DarkfalzX. You're animations are so technically sound, and well animated to boot! I hope to reach this point of awesomeness of animation prowess in the future...

genius!!                 

WOW! freaking awesome!

Really good stuff!

WOW! great!       

I want to play this game NOW.

The weight of it is flawless. The imperfections in game play will never be noticed...I vote finished, awesome and faved.

best animation i've seen in a while. so much detail animated so well...even little things like the armor clanking with every movement. i do agree with the feet, it could be tweened better.

Superb weight, motion, everything!

Yes, it's not perfect. Yet, an excellent job, so fluid and so detailed. I'd like to see part of the hammer 'wood' in his hand though.

7/7

wow.

The way the shiny reflection goes right and left in his armor is perfect!

5/5+fav'

Whoa, that is awesome.  Fav. 

Reminds me of those pig things from Legend of Zelda (I forget what they're called, but something that starts with "M"... Mobsters, something along that line...)

It's a great walking anim.

Wow, great lighting!

Well if I was going to be picky and critique this I would have to say; with the positioning of the legs and (rather nice) expression of weight he appears to be dragging something heavy rather then supporting his giant hammer. But really this is awesome, I really like how the armour looks and moves, the pieces pulling apart and back together with his motion looks really great and characterful.  Beautiful style and beautiful piece!

Exelent 3D volum effect, chara design and colors...strong !

@Christopher: The lack of outlining on the bottom of the feet is a spriting technique used to make dudes look more grounded.

@DarkfalzX: It's a great walk cycle, but the back foots movement seems really erratic and confusing.

Stunning! 6/7 and fav!

frames 12-13 are entirely too big of a difference in where the feet are, IMO. it almost looks like the foot disapears and reapears during those frames.

This is def one of my favorite walking cycles, the feet seem kinda cut off though.