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would stop motion count?

Did you say claymation?

If you could post some of that you would ROCK SO HARD. Claymation is hardcore.

My Claymation isn't very good lol...

I made this AGES ago...lol its so lame...

Uploading YouTube................done...

Here you go!

Enjoy the Lameness...

KingRyan

Oh noes, I can't watch that from here because where I'm at, youtube is BLOCKED.

Lame. I'll earmark for later.

man i made a stop motion one with a texting turtle on gimp and it wont upload to imageshack!

Cool stuff, kingryan! :3

@kibbles:
What sort of file is it? .gif?

Oh teh nose. Eeeet died! *kicks lolcat*

Holy crab, I did an emote!

Sig?

You could use that as a sig, that would be great.

...imaging if you drew a Mazzelh doing that!

!! That could be awesome! I guess I could manipulate (and redraw from other angles) the mazzelh emote Cenere made. :3

*sigs for the fun of it*

Thanks for the half of that compliment that was directed at me.

But I wants help!!

If we all ignore those flickering black lines that are a result of a faulty optimization... And the fact that so far only his pants are shaded. It's my first attempt at animating walking, and I'm slightly clueless and sort of just fumbling along hoping for a decent result...
Does this look okay? Should I drop the torso/arm movement?
Is it going at the right pace, or too fast/slow?
Is there anything else you could advise me to do (keeping in mind that it is not done)?

Hmmm... Before anyone tells me... His hands should follow his hip movements. And I think it does look wrong with his torso moving like that... Eep. Still want opinions/advise. Sorry about the double post.

Well i made an animation club before haha

The legs are fine (very good actually, walking is one of the tougher basic things to get right) but hands on hips generally makes for a strutting. In this case the way the body and head move it looks a bit like a pidgeon's walk haha.

If you wanted a stylized walk that's okay but it'd be pretty rare for somebody to be walking like that, keeping their hips perfectly still. If anything you ought to move the hands with the hips, which you've already stated above. I would actually just leave the hands swinging but since this guy is closer to marching than walking maybe I'd have him swinging his arms stiffly.

*absorbs advice with gratitude*

I think he's moving too fast, but I don't know how to slow him down~ The fps is already really low~

I am not very good at criticism, but the upper body is rather stiff. He is walking a little too fast, yes, and it does not look much like strolling to me. A bit more - weight to the character, shoulders, hips and torso should be moving more, head too. As I said, I cannot specify it further.