Hi!
Sorry, you can forget the park, that was just a metaphor No need to add a park Just have a character start walking on which you can clearly see that he's enjoying him/herself, and enjoy yourself animating it!

I was a little confused about what the actual challenge was too. Is it a walk cycle? Are they suppose to start stationary and then walk forward? They have to be happy?

I'm REALLY confused. It says "animate a happy walk from a stand." What kind of "stand?" Like, a microphone stand? Or like a gazebo or something? Maybe a magazine stand? But wouldn't that be considered a rack? Can we animate a happy walk from a rack instead?



You're doing fine, wolfor! Don't worry, it will all work out and you'll quickly find your groove.

I'm not sure if I'll have time to do this one, but it sounds very challenging because of all the "thinking" of the character involved. Using a hammer you can sort of skip out on the "what the character is feeling" part, but when you change from a stationary pose to a moving one, the character MUST have clear motivation. Exciting!

to you both Is it doing something "from stand" instead of "from a stand"? Darn you, English language!

wolfor wrote:

to you both Is it doing something "from stand" instead of "from a stand"? Darn you, English language!

Oh I'm just messing with you! From a stand is correct. From a standing POSITION would be even better, but I don't think "from a stand" is at all confusing. What would be helpful, perhaps, is a very simple image to show what you mean. For example:



Now yes, this will bias some animators, but honestly they should be forging their own path anyway, so maybe this will simply take away the "first, cliche idea" for them so they have to make it more interesting than the 25 second sketch I just did there.

wolfor wrote:

JKR, that was actually exactly what I was thinking about By the way, if you did those three drawings in 25 seconds, you should get this challenge finished in under 10 minutes, right?

Ha ha, if I wanted it to be as garbage as those three drawings are!

You can't rush art!

wolfor wrote:

By the way, if you did those three drawings in 25 seconds, you should get this challenge finished in under 10 minutes, right?

MAN. Look what you did. You totally got me. You sucked me in so I had no choice but to participate, and then I had to decide what the character was THINKING, and then it didn't make sense without including him feeding the duck at the park which is WHY he was happy, and now I'm 50 frames in and he isn't even "standing" yet in the "stand then walk" challenge!



I just can't keep things simple, can I?

Sounds good indeed! I'm in!

@jkr while he was walking ehh is't he getting smaller ?

Last edited by fakepivot (04-05-2012 3:04 pm)

It's um... it's... an illuuuuuusssssion!

Dang. I hate how I have zero consistency. Sigh. How does one practice that?

Hahaha never feed the ducks, right

I guess you can practice that by drawing the same character 200 times a week for a few months

I'm not sure how that would help consistency in form, though? I mean, it will get me really good at other stuff, for sure, I love that tutorial booklet.

I guess it's like wolfor says, you need to draw the character 200 times until the proportions are burned into your brain.