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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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Used your tutorial, it really was helpful. I'm trying for an animation major so I do want to get better at animating animals and people.
For now this is only a WIP but I should have it fleshed out and done eventually.
[link]
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hey, congrats on starting the major! - I wish you all the best with that
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Used this here: [link]
Thank you for making this! It's very useful.
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way to go! cheers for sharing
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Oooh I'm gonna try this out ^^ I'll try and colour it too
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good luck with that, have fun!
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Thanks so much for the tutorial. Helped so much with this: [link]
I'm not done yet, but in the finished one, I'll link to your tutorial.
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great, I'd appreciate that - thanks!
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This looks nifty! I tried to animate a dog today and I really screwed it up XD This will really help! Thanks!
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no problem! practice makes perfect!
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*FAV* This is really great! I'm working on a Wolf Walk Cycle right now, but I'll be back when I make her run! lol!
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thanks for the fav! have fun with your animation!
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This helped me so damn much! [link] here i could make this just because of your tuturial X33 thanks so much for making this
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hey I'm really pleased the tutorial helped you!! 
the animation's looking great!
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i used this tutorial to make this: [link] thanks for uploading it, i think it really helped!
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hey this is a great tutorial!
i used it to create my new icon, and you can see the full version here: [link]
thanks so much for creating it, i would never have been able to do that on my own. and it helped me start with animation...i wish to do more later.
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hey you're really welcome
Good luck with your future attempts, you're off to a great start!
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thanks
it really was useful.
would have took me forever to look up each frame of a running dog
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it's not so hard if you can find good video footage to use as reference... or you might like to look up the work of Edward Muybridge ( think that's how it's spelt!) ... he took a load of photographs of animals and people in motion back in the ... I dunno... late 1800's I guess... they're grainy and black and white but they're still useful reference for animators today
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hehe thanks so much.
i looked him up...it's spelled Eadweard though. He has some great pictures of horses and humans
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ah! lol y'learn something new every day
glad to be of use (again!)
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just did this now:[link]
i looked at some of his bird work and got inspired
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Er, one thing - it sould be the opposite leg that lands first. Like if the right foreleg lands, then the left hindleg should follow. ^^' But good guide.
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umm.. forgive me if I misunderstand the point you're making here, but is that not what I've done? On my example the right fore-leg lands first, the hind leg to land next is the left one.
If however you're pointing out that the opposite hind-leg should land immediately after the first foreleg, (as opposed to on this example, which has both fore-legs landing first) then you might like to research more running strides; take this photograph reference of a running greyhound for example; [link] ...I think you'll find this is a similar stride to what I've drawn.
You have however drawn my attention to an error in the writing on the tutorial, I've written "front" leg when it should say "back" leg (d'oh!) ... thanks for that. - I really should update this anyway... it's always had an annoying kick which I notice repeated in the animation of anyone who uses it! -_-
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...My bad. xD; I was looking at the image wrong. It looked to me like the left leg was landing first in both the forelegs and hindlegs, but I just checked it again there, and you're right. xD I'm sorry.
Because the right legs are shaded, theyd din't stand outt o me as well, so I geuss it was a trick-of-the-eye thing, because I did check it a few times before commenting. xD
Really sorry about that.
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Hey, no worries! I'm just glad I hadn't made such a basic mistake... looks like that first class hons in traditional 2D animation wasn't just for show after all 
Thanks!
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Haha glad I was able to help somehow then. xD You're welcome.
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Thanks for uploading this. I'm definitely going to use this for a small project i'm working on!
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cool, sounds good! - Best of luck with it
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Thanks. I'll make sure to give you the link when it's done. ^^
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great! I'll look forward to that
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I made a small running cycle. It isn't the finished project, but I thought you might want to still see it. ^^
[link]
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hey that's great!! looking good so far!
- keep up the great work. I look forward to seeing what happens next
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Thank you and you're welcome. It was my pleasure. ^^
I'll let you know when I start to add more. :3
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woah this is awesome! d'you think I could feature it as a deviation (I upload stock and guides for animation, hence my name XD)
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sure, so long as you link back to my original post, and specify my terms of use as stated above, namely that people using it please link back to the tutorial on MY gallery, and give me a note so I can
thanks for asking.
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awesome, thanks so much
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I might use it sooner or later
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great! I hope you have fun with it if you do
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Faved for later use
A great tutorial
And even if I use GIMP it's still the same^^
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great! good to know it works cross-platforms! thanks for the fav!
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Thank you, I'm going to really use this, I'll leave a critque for you soon.
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