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[Kindred Heavens Trailer]

Spring 2023? But it's already summer!

Either way, great job! Looking forward to your continued success!

Credits for the music used in the trailer?

By the way, if you ever need a voice actor, I'd be down to help! Let's collab!

[2 | Number Lore]

You're second to none!

Go, team, go!

[EARWAX | MELVINS MACABRE]

Fucking amazing job. Standalone quality on this one, the whole team should be proud of this gross-ass masterpiece.

Somebody send this to Junji Ito.

Swinging at every ball here, if you guys ever need another voice just to diversify roles, I would be thrilled to throwdown for the credit. I love horror, and I've always wanted to perform in a horror role with a ridiculous twist.

[This is just a random test animation!]

Probably the best thing I've yet to see that was made using FlipAClip

[The Mangolodeon]

"WELL IF IT ISN'T THE MANGO"

"I need more clinky clinkies made out of bestgar to save baby gogo"

"BUT YOU TOOK OFF YOUR HELMET IN FRONT OF SOMEONE, GOODBYE"

"This is that way"

"THIS IS A WAY"

ExtraLongLunch responds:

Now go bathe in the land of the living water...for then- you will be absolved of your sin.

That is the only way...

[Rainburger in the Sky]

I saw this in the under judgments and I came back because it's stuck in my head. Please help.

[Peppino's 'bouta Sauce You]

Boy that stuff IS pretty good, holy shit.

[Aisle 99]

This is amazing! Exceptionally well-done; I'm familiar with ToonBoom Harmony, and you've pulled off some really impressive stuff with the programs at your disposal. Extremely recognizable talent, and I'm invested to see where this is gonna go.

If you ever need a male voice actor, throw my hat into the pool; I just ask for my name to be spelled right. Been working professionally with Cyanide & Happiness more than half a decade.

Aisle99 responds:

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[Animation Practice]

Richard William's Animator's Survival Guide talks about the distribution of weight in a character's walk cycle at length, and through his observations, it sticks out whenever a part of a character remains uncannily stable when the whole of the body is hustling.

That three-quarters angle at the start, is a really ambitious full bodied shot- and it's done really well here in mannequin form- everything reads. But what isn't translating as well as it could is the twisting happening as the shoulders rotate opposite of the hips. You can get by with making the shoulder circles be wherever, but it's going to be a completely different feat on a full-bodied character, with specifics to anatomy and clothes. You already know this, but the twist is going to be a difficult facet of animation to master.

My eyes are also drawn to the positional relativity to the head. You look at an actual runner/a person running in real life, and the head bobs and weaves, swaying side to side as weight transfers between the feet. The point between the eyes, if looking from the front, should draw a "U" or a curved bowl shape. Sometimes even a mobius strip depending on what's going on at the hips and shoulders.

What I'm seeing here in these tests are a lot of steadycam heads- they're all horizontally stable for the most part. And take that critique with a grain of salt; lots of animations do it, and stylistically that works to comedic effect, or budget-conserving measures in cartoons.

IF you're striving for a more realistic stride, use live models for reference. Even if it means looking at yourself in a mirror, recording a friend, or having a friend record you. Even the top-budget animation studios will film live models performing the desired action- not even to rotoscope them, but to have live reference. If they're doing it, to great success, you can do it too. If there's a voice of doubt or anxiety decrying that as cheating, you can rest assured that it'll still be a tremendous creative effort on your end replicating your reference onto paper or vector.

Use references so that you're practicing and informing yourself on what you need to do to make it look correct.

That's what'll advance your talents.