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Description What the... It's a Flash walkcycle!!1

Here's something I've been experimenting with for a while. Curious whether Bottled Up could work as an animation in stead of a static comic, I tried my hand at Flash (or SwishMax, technically) and did the most basic thing imaginable: a walkcycle for the main character.

Let me know what you think. This stuff is clearly too time-consuming (I have yet to work on lip-synching, expressions and other characters, which will most likely neer happen), but it was fun to try.

EDIT: made the legs and knee movement more visible.

Dr Mario (c) Nintendo
Bottled Up / animation (c) me
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Comments: 34

G4rdevoir [2013-03-01 19:40:09 +0000 UTC]

She's cute! ^.^

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BrunoTheFox In reply to G4rdevoir [2013-03-09 10:20:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

He's meant to be a guy, but I guess it's hard to see

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G4rdevoir In reply to BrunoTheFox [2013-03-09 14:06:31 +0000 UTC]

According to Nintendo, Fever is canonically a girl.

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Maskanis In reply to G4rdevoir [2019-07-04 22:24:19 +0000 UTC]

Apparently Fever is probably now a guy again because of his voice in the doctor mario world trailers

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BrunoTheFox In reply to G4rdevoir [2013-03-10 12:22:12 +0000 UTC]

Mind = blown O_O

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CanofNothing [2011-09-10 09:26:25 +0000 UTC]

Go on with Bottled Up, please!

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BrunoTheFox In reply to CanofNothing [2011-09-12 09:14:49 +0000 UTC]

Heheh, I'd love to Back then, I went out of ideas before the whole thing started, and it feels like it's been ages. But I'll see what I can do ^^

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CanofNothing In reply to BrunoTheFox [2011-09-12 09:45:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ^^

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DeftFunk [2010-03-23 05:50:08 +0000 UTC]

Well, as far as I can tell, this walk cycle is totally done and there's nothing wrong with it that I can find. It's quite fluid and it is interesting to see your style animated. How long did this take you?

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BrunoTheFox In reply to DeftFunk [2010-03-23 20:48:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks It took me two non-full days (about 8 hours, I think). I could directly import most shapes from CorelDraw (both programs work with vector shapes), so I didn't have to draw anything new. The most time-consuming steps were splitting the limbs to make them move naturally, and letting the background scroll and wrap in a proper way.

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dsnajde3 [2010-03-14 11:30:24 +0000 UTC]

Looks fluent and dynamic
If you're gonna make it into an animation i'm giving you best of luck, animations are hard stuff man D:

All in all this pretty good for beginners wise, nice job

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BrunoTheFox In reply to dsnajde3 [2010-03-14 14:56:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the support A complete cartoon would require too much planning, so I'd rather create something small whenever the opportunity pops up. I even think that a *very* basic game would be more likely to appear than a big animation, but who knows?

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dsnajde3 In reply to BrunoTheFox [2010-03-15 01:06:39 +0000 UTC]

Well i'm sure whatever the formats choice is it's gonna eat up a lot of time, or so i think, i dunno i never could get the patience to try something like that

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CaccoXL [2010-03-13 22:41:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow! I'm trying to do animations too! But you're far far better than me!
It's a perfect cycle animation! The movement is very smooth and the flash objects move in a good armonich way.
Hoc est pulcherrimum exemplum artis! Bravo!

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BrunoTheFox In reply to CaccoXL [2010-03-14 10:43:19 +0000 UTC]

Well, thanks ^^ This was a first attempt at character animation; I'm sure you'll be able to pull it off as well

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CaccoXL In reply to BrunoTheFox [2010-03-15 14:13:37 +0000 UTC]

Nee, dit is onmogelijk.

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BrunoTheFox In reply to CaccoXL [2010-03-15 18:21:13 +0000 UTC]

xD

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Rainbroach [2010-03-13 20:41:25 +0000 UTC]

Smooth animation, if a little stiff in the leg movement, but the way the ears-things sway and the eyes flutter occasionally are all solid. And yes, animating an be very time draining.

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jenjanel In reply to Rainbroach [2010-06-07 17:33:39 +0000 UTC]

Fever got elf like ears & his real name is camron corey harper

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BrunoTheFox In reply to Rainbroach [2010-03-14 10:42:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Gotta start somewhere

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LordRobrainiac [2010-03-13 17:09:37 +0000 UTC]

Lol, very nice. I like the style and animation!

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BrunoTheFox In reply to LordRobrainiac [2010-03-13 17:35:06 +0000 UTC]

Heehee, thanks

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UnrealCanine [2010-03-13 16:35:59 +0000 UTC]

He appears to be limping

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BrunoTheFox In reply to UnrealCanine [2010-03-13 17:26:14 +0000 UTC]

Fair enough... Any suggestions on how to fix it? There's probably something about the legs; I don't want to remove the character's cartoony waggle.

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jenjanel In reply to BrunoTheFox [2010-04-09 16:08:22 +0000 UTC]

arent ya gonna make more walkcycles of a other 7 viruses & a flash series bottled up i like dat & dis walk cycle

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BrunoTheFox In reply to jenjanel [2010-04-10 15:47:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Perhaps I'll make one of the other ones someday

A Flash cartoon series sounds kinda impossible, given the amount of time that I have for this stuff... but I'd like to try another walkcycle or some lip-synching, just for personal training. And when that time comes, of course I'll upload the results!

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jenjanel In reply to BrunoTheFox [2010-04-18 20:37:13 +0000 UTC]

& a dr mario bottled up series

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UnrealCanine In reply to BrunoTheFox [2010-03-13 17:29:21 +0000 UTC]

I would tilt both legs more so that it looks like both legs are moving past each other

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BrunoTheFox In reply to UnrealCanine [2010-03-13 17:33:39 +0000 UTC]

Alright I'm giving it a go and it does look better indeed. Figured it'd be weird if the character still looked sideways, but no. Thanks for the input!

Now if only DA allowed me to update the file.

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tvpaladin [2010-03-13 14:35:42 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome work

I can't even do walking. I can't do animation at all lol

Okay, I can, but I can't do too many things. I did more when I was younger, maybe I will do more sometime

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BrunoTheFox In reply to tvpaladin [2010-03-13 15:24:34 +0000 UTC]

Heheh, it's always worth a shot

Thanks!

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tvpaladin In reply to BrunoTheFox [2010-03-13 15:28:08 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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Bennysquirrel [2010-03-13 13:51:13 +0000 UTC]

Impressive work Wouter! Your animation progress is very smooth, It indeed could work good for an animation, I mostly like how you made the body parts move, and the Background with it too, But i sence there are allot of things to work on, like more advanced animation and indeed lip-synching, Good job on it! I cant wait to see more of you animated works in the future

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BrunoTheFox In reply to Bennysquirrel [2010-03-13 15:29:10 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^^

Yeah, if I were to try making a full cartoon, it'd fail miserably... like too many other projects I once started but never finished. But an occasional experiment is pretty harmless

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