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Topic: Practice animation - An opening Scene.

Good evening, brickfilmers.
Let's begin.

Well, I haven't made a video that is good in about 10-11 months. The random video I had in April was pure garbage in  can. I had kind of drifted off brickfilming and animating and such, but the other day I was bored, and thought 'Hey, why not make a video?' so I did. It's really flawed due to circumstances such as tiny camera bumps and such. The walking cycle at the beginning is kind of flawed in my opinion. This is because I was trying out a walk that required more frames (I use 15fps) and it didn't seem to work, so I won't use it again. It was a mistake, yes, but you learn from mistakes. There really is no plot or anything to this - It's just practice. Why not upload it? So basically, keeping in mind I'm very rusty after almost a year (pretty much back to square 1) and was trying out a new walk cycle. The sound is also a bit quiet, so turn up your speakers... or headphones. mini/tongue
Anyway, What are your thoughts?
Cheers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKipDrIlNY

P.S the quality may be a bit bad or it may not load. At the time I'm typing this, I uploaded the video 15 minutes ago.
P.S.S I stopped light flicker, which is brilliant for me. It was a huge burden in a lot of my films. It's quite a good thing, lol.

~EF~

Last edited by EliteFeet (October 19, 2011 (11:12am))

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Re: Practice animation - An opening Scene.

I don't know. I didn't very like it. Maybe too far from the set and minifigs and the resolution changes once and I hate that thing... But, don't be sad, this is just... video mini/wink

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Re: Practice animation - An opening Scene.

Yeah I agree. One of my favourite Youtubers is Michael Hickox and I wanted it to be soemthing like his. Don't think it worked though, hehe. And yeah I agree about the resolution, I have no idea how that happened. Sorry. Cheers for da crit.

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Re: Practice animation - An opening Scene.

The main problem with the walk cycle is the arms are very jittery. You need to animate them swining back and forth. I've found that a 5-frame walk cycle is good, it's not too slow and not too fast.

Not literally dead, just no longer interested in Lego or animation.
  • Location: North East England
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Re: Practice animation - An opening Scene.

Yeah. This was kind of rushed due to time constraints, as well.

Hello
Youtube Channel ] for occasional animations.
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  • Joined: August 14, 2011

Re: Practice animation - An opening Scene.

Don't rush never, that's very big problem sometimes. I'm sure, 'cause I have experience for that. mini/no mini/sad

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