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EDIT: This is still getting
s but it would be nice to know of anyone actually using this! - gimmie a link if you make an animation using this as reference will ya? I'm interested to see 
...also, it'd be great if you linked back to this tutorial so that other people can benefit from it too! ^-^-----------------------------------
my good friend Cerzz has started to dabble in the wonderful and pain-staking world of animation!
So far she's been lookin' mostly at dogs, so I quickly knocked up some thumbnails and threw together this tutorial to try and explain a few things. It only took an hour to put together, so it's not meant to be any conclusive lesson in making the perfect run cycle, more that it's simply intended to illustrate a few things which aren't easy to explain in words. I figured I'd post it up here in case anyone else finds it useful!I suggest using this only as a guide, as you can see the animation itself is basic and by no means flawless!!
the animation should loop automatically (if not, right click, loop) and if it's too small to read any of the text, right click, zoom in. my tutors would screw if they knew I was workin' on this instead of my school work lol! ... me go bed now
Hope it helps Cerrz
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i made one, but im having trouble getting it into a file format that works on dA.... its a great turtorial!!!!
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Hey great to hear (although I'm sorry you're struggling to w/getting it into a DA format) ... what program are you using? .. DA supports flash SWFs and GIFs I believe.
Thanks for the comment, I'm glad it was useful.
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yeah its a long story.... 
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nice tutorial, if you wanna check it out heres the sketch version [link] you helped me with that tuto so ty
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Hey, sorry! You managed to finish your animation before I even got around to commenting on the sketch! lol
It looks great though, well done!
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dude you know how to animate in photo shop cs3/4?
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no, I'm afraid not! ... I'm not even sure if you can!? o.O
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Hey looking good so far! I left a comment w/a couple of things to think about/look at! - I'd love to see again once it's "done"
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I have a very stupid-amature question,
what program(s) are/is used 2 animate?
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hey that's not a stupid question at all! in fact, it's a perfectly good one! - This was animated on Adobe Flash, but if you want to animate pencil drawings you're better off using something else. - Flash is better for drawing straight into the computer.
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Thank you!!!
I'd better learn to draw with a computer, or do more research it seems.
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well it's more than possible to animate by hand, that's how I was trained and that's how it was done for years, but it means scanning in lots of drawings when you come to put them together... it's fine for short animations (like run cycles I suppose!) but for longer scenes it can be very time consuming! .. mind you, animation all over is very time consuming!
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I don't exactly know this (having never done it myself), but that is what I've heard.
Creating a drawing is time consuming in itself; I would imagine multiple frames wouldn't be any easier.
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yeah, that's very true! you basically have to multiply your time by how many frames you draw! ... hehe.. gotta learn to draw pretty fast if you wanna get any longer animations done.
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Whew! U R right.
Thank you again!
*runs of to study every art book physically attainable*
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No problem! - Let me know if you need a great introduction to animation.. there was a book that they made us get when I studied it at uni and it was really useful!
take care! x
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wow! how do u do animatios?!?
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drawing lots of pictures that look similar but are actually slightly different and then putting them in order! - This one was done using a program called Flash, but there are plenty of other ways of animating too
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Your tutorial was very useful: [link] I modified it to a cat ^^
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lovely! I will send this to my friend who does a lot of animating.
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cool! Be my guest! I hope your friend finds it useful.
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This really helped thank you :3
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this looks very similar to an animation book I know of: The animators Survival Kit (good book btw)
7 clicks on next page
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hey, thanks for that. Yeah I'm very familiar with the book, we used to use it as a reference all the time back when I took my animation degree, so it's no surprise really that this should look similar! :]
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I'm gonna use that tutorial, I alwasy wanted to make finally a running wolf, but I couldn't get the legs right.
heh thanks for posting that!
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no problem, glad it will be of use! - Be sure to link back and show me the result so I can add it to my collection! ^__^
- have fun!
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oh and it helps! REALLY!
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i've been trying to learn how to make an animation and this helped a lot XD tell me how it looks [link]
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nicely done, glad the tutorial helped!
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what does it look like from the frount?
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your best bet is to find some reference footage and look at that in slow-motion... it's very unlikely that I'll be making any-more animation tutorials any-time soon
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