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ChaosKomori — Critter Run Animation
Published: 2009-04-02 10:17:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 10360; Favourites: 85; Downloads: 101
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Hur hur, it's been a little while since I've done any animation. I am ashamed. ._. So, this was supposed to be a revamp of a quick dog run that I'd animated for Portfolio class, but I wound up totally changing the run to something sillier, playful, and not exactly canine.The run's on a loop, and it loops about four times within the 10 seconds. At some point, I plan on adding to this animation, and make him change pace, or jump, or something to break the loop.
So yeah, maybe I'll use this submission as a chance to try out that new Critique feature dA's got put up. :3 Been a while since I've had some serious anim critique, anyway.
Animated completely in Adobe Flash.
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Comments: 57
I realy like your animation style,and also i like how the creature runs
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interesting. I like the rhythm in the running, and the variation in it as well
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Your sense of movement is amazing 0_0
Have you considered making a movement tutorial? With squeeze and stretch and so on? 
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Hm, no, I've never considered that. I think it'd take a whole book, like a whole book on animation to get to a walk/run cycle. D:
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Haha! No problem xD I'm glad you're that into it
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I don't really have critique. But I would like to say that I WISH I COULD MAKE ANIMATIONS!!!! >_<;;;;;;
Anyway, neato, though I don't quite know what the creature is. xD
o_o
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Thanks muchly! If you only need an animation program, I recommend Pencil. It's a free and rather decent program for traditional animation techniques. :3
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I'll look into that! My sister has figured out how to make moving avvies for DA. xP They're entertaining! A moving sun, a raining cloud. xD Make me laugh!
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It reminds me of my dog Luma
*hugs little Luma who was asleep* xP
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Ah. No matter how I do my animations(do them with Artoonix 1.6), they always end up choppy.
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Are they at 24 frames per second?
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Some 100 ms, 50, 62, 150, 1s, 200ms, etc.
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Well, then that's why it's choppy. :3 Ideally, you should use the same timing for all of the frames, and then your drawings to make things go slower or faster.
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Wait, I don't think you understand. In each animation, the first few frames may have 50 ms, and then a frame has 100 ms, then 50 again, and 250 to slow things down. Artoonix is different than Flash.
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Right, I understand. You can change the timing for each frame. But for a smooth animation, all frames should have the exact SAME timing. If you want an action to go slower, then use more drawings for that action.
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So cute and fluid! I always like your animations!
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I wanna critter like that
Adorable animation 
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this looks nice. his run seems a little slow and it could def use some in betweens. the actual motion itself looks really good though. and the critter is very cute.
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Yeah, I think the deviantART playback is dropping some frames, because it's all on 2s at 24 fps. :< It looks a little different in .mov format than it seems to here.
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yeah it looks more like 3s or 4s on DA, so it's probably all good
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aw! so cute! i love it when he/she gets his tongue out
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I love how it blinks and kind of looks like it's swallowing, and that extra bouncy back! So cute!
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NICE flowing motion overall. I would like to see a bit more solidity to the back of the skull and the back if the jaw. They seem to be jumping around relative to the eyes/face.
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Thank you very much, that's very helpful! I'll be sure to change that.
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awesome 
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Heheheh this reminds me of the way my Dachshunds run. 
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i was thinking...it has its good points. but maybe extend the leg in front thats closest to us a little farther forward before it hits the ground.
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Ohhh, I see exactly what you're saying. Yeah, I agree, he needs more extension. *jots down*
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also, when a dog runs its sort of like when a person runs. their chest does turn towards us, even in profile. only slightly, so it is seen, but not exaggerated.
i watched my dog run...alot.
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Hmm, good point. I wonder what I'd do to delineate a chest... I guess move his shoulder back more?
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yup, and turn his head a bit. heh, i even saw it in Bolt. We were watching it last night.
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Dude that's freakin' adorable; It's like a dauchshound or however you spell it. Or like a martin. Or something. You should turn it into a Lutari or some Neopet to show them XD just for the heck of it; and so you can throw it in their gallery or something. Super cuute! I like that he closes his eyes in that one frame
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Lol, I thought about making it a Neopet, but there's not really a place to submit animation like this anyway. Neovision is more story-based.
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Very smooth Its cute too! I like this
I like how each "loop" is a bit different
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Super cute! Love the tongue.
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wow thats some pretty good animation.
im hopeing to see allot more of these from you 8D
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Thanks, I hope to be doing more of these in the future. :3
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