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Description 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! ^-^
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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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Comments: 797

KatCardy In reply to ??? [2009-01-13 21:36:51 +0000 UTC]

great! Have Fun, I look forward to seeing it!!

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KatCardy In reply to ??? [2009-01-13 21:36:44 +0000 UTC]

great! Have Fun, I look forward to seeing it!!

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KatCardy In reply to ??? [2009-01-13 21:36:39 +0000 UTC]

great! Have Fun, I look forward to seeing it!!

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Punctured-wings In reply to KatCardy [2009-01-14 18:14:07 +0000 UTC]

^^

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Lady-Dracoleo101 In reply to ??? [2008-12-27 18:13:06 +0000 UTC]

I have a question...
I only have GIMP and Windows Movie player. I've already made the drawings (traditional). As soon as they're scanned and resent to me I was going to put the animation together. How would I go about doing that?

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Shaiza7 In reply to Lady-Dracoleo101 [2009-01-04 01:30:33 +0000 UTC]

I do the same thing, but I draw on GIMP.
You just have to import all of the pictures, put them on the timeline in order, then you click the zoom button somewhere around the timeline and shorten each picture until you're content

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Lady-Dracoleo101 In reply to Shaiza7 [2009-01-04 01:34:13 +0000 UTC]

Ah. Thank you =3

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Shaiza7 In reply to Lady-Dracoleo101 [2009-01-04 01:36:16 +0000 UTC]

Anytime.
My WMM hates me...

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Lady-Dracoleo101 In reply to Shaiza7 [2009-01-04 01:39:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the help *nods* =3

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KatCardy In reply to Lady-Dracoleo101 [2008-12-30 13:21:36 +0000 UTC]

Hey there, I'm really not sure how you'd go about doing that with those programs.. .I've only really used adobe premiere and animation shop. - could you try looking up tutorials on deviantart, or look up tips using google? ... good luck!

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Lady-Dracoleo101 In reply to KatCardy [2008-12-30 16:09:44 +0000 UTC]

Okay, thanks ^^

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lil-twilight-wolf In reply to ??? [2008-12-20 21:36:21 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty great tutorial/walkthrough you have there i love how the head moves so effortlessly ^w^ you have a great hand at animation <3 and this shall help me greatly with practice .Thank you for sharing this with us all

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KatCardy In reply to lil-twilight-wolf [2008-12-21 14:31:07 +0000 UTC]

hey hey, glad i could be of service.. - I hope it helps. keep up the good work

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harrie5 In reply to KatCardy [2009-02-05 21:27:02 +0000 UTC]

[link]

Finnished 8D

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KatCardy In reply to harrie5 [2009-02-06 00:27:23 +0000 UTC]

well done

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EquineArtist-Fanatic In reply to ??? [2008-12-17 02:20:43 +0000 UTC]

great! Ive been looking for a tut on animation, I will definatly use this! (Im not sure If I will post it on DA, I might just use it as a practise run. But If I do Ill make sure to link back!)

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KatCardy In reply to EquineArtist-Fanatic [2008-12-17 10:04:33 +0000 UTC]

great! thanks for the fav! and have fun with your animation!!

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EquineArtist-Fanatic In reply to KatCardy [2008-12-17 12:26:41 +0000 UTC]

thanks! and here, i did end up putting it on my DA, I forgot to link to you, But Ill edit that. Here ,[link] It actually tought me alot llol, I mean, even though I already knew it, it just kinda, simplified things for me.

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KatCardy In reply to EquineArtist-Fanatic [2008-12-17 12:37:26 +0000 UTC]

lookin' good there! - If you could edit it and add the link I'd appreciate it - cheers!

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EquineArtist-Fanatic In reply to KatCardy [2008-12-17 18:17:07 +0000 UTC]

I defintaly will!

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Lazlosas In reply to ??? [2008-11-16 10:12:07 +0000 UTC]

*0* nice tutorial

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KatCardy In reply to Lazlosas [2008-11-16 12:45:22 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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katdrake In reply to ??? [2008-11-08 22:52:56 +0000 UTC]

This was very helpful I used it to make this [link]

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KatCardy In reply to katdrake [2008-11-11 00:57:33 +0000 UTC]

glad it was useful! ^-^ - looks pretty smooth!

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katdrake In reply to KatCardy [2008-11-11 03:24:34 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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maranight In reply to katdrake [2008-11-16 09:18:33 +0000 UTC]

Your avatar gives me motion sickness. xD

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katdrake In reply to maranight [2008-11-16 18:02:53 +0000 UTC]

uhhh....thanks?

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starrypawz In reply to ??? [2008-11-08 11:13:52 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful, I may try this out later. Just one thing though what program did you use to animate it?

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KatCardy In reply to starrypawz [2008-11-08 11:52:10 +0000 UTC]

macromedia flash

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starrypawz In reply to KatCardy [2008-11-08 13:08:31 +0000 UTC]

Ah I see. I don't have that XD

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KatCardy In reply to starrypawz [2008-11-08 13:23:46 +0000 UTC]

that might be a problem

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starrypawz In reply to KatCardy [2008-11-08 19:57:27 +0000 UTC]

Well I've just worked out how to use the photoshop animation tool. Better than nothing I suppose XD

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KatCardy In reply to starrypawz [2008-11-09 18:32:11 +0000 UTC]

that must be a newer version of photoshop than what I have... I don't think mine has an animation tool - good luck with it, anyway!) ^-^

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starrypawz In reply to KatCardy [2008-11-09 19:16:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks I only just worked out how to use the animation feature. I have CS2 and it comes with Imageready which can also be used to animate stuff.

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Zhellana In reply to ??? [2008-10-31 20:05:37 +0000 UTC]

This is brilliant; thank you so much! It'll be a huge help!

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KatCardy In reply to Zhellana [2008-11-02 22:10:28 +0000 UTC]

you're quite welcome, happy-animating!

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cutedragons In reply to ??? [2008-10-18 18:56:06 +0000 UTC]

This is a really helpful tutorial. I was being a tad bored and I saw this. I thought it would be cool to animate my character Anyway here's the link:[link]

Thanks for posting such a great tutorial

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KatCardy In reply to cutedragons [2008-11-03 00:52:23 +0000 UTC]

great job! ^-^

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Tarni-the-Raindancer In reply to ??? [2008-09-29 16:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou! It helped so much! ^^ [link]

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KatCardy In reply to Tarni-the-Raindancer [2008-09-30 18:55:47 +0000 UTC]

you're very welcome

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Pcaara In reply to ??? [2008-09-20 14:59:44 +0000 UTC]

OH, I forgot, here's the link:

[link]

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KatCardy In reply to Pcaara [2008-09-20 19:49:24 +0000 UTC]

hey! way to go! thanks for linking back to my gallery

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Pcaara In reply to KatCardy [2008-09-20 20:11:53 +0000 UTC]

Ur welcome, and thnx again

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Pcaara In reply to ??? [2008-09-20 14:55:12 +0000 UTC]

OMG this really helps!! THNX

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KatCardy In reply to Pcaara [2008-09-20 19:49:32 +0000 UTC]

you're very welcome

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BenWulf In reply to ??? [2008-09-11 22:11:01 +0000 UTC]

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! Thank you SOOO much! I have been trying to make an animation for SOOO long!!!

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KatCardy In reply to BenWulf [2008-09-11 23:15:39 +0000 UTC]

well then I hope this helps

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BenWulf In reply to ??? [2008-09-11 22:10:46 +0000 UTC]

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! Thank you SOOO much! I have been trying to make an animation for SOOO long!!!

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Blue-Java-Finch In reply to ??? [2008-08-21 15:18:26 +0000 UTC]

I'm using it! It's so awesome, but unfortunanetly, I only use an animation site called iaza.com, and my computer doesn't allow 6 slides or more to be animated, so I have to put it in a video.

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Shaxel In reply to ??? [2008-08-21 02:28:37 +0000 UTC]

omg fucking thanks! i already did it but right now i need to go sleep! ill post it some other time! thank so much!!

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