My first complex animation with AS WIP

[super8mm]

To do list:
Add shine to her eyes.
I already made a switch for her right forearm, now I need to draw art for the punch forearm.
Maybe add some bone dynamics in her boobs for a bit of jiggle.
Make her legs look less noodlely.
Need to add a back layer for the skin under her arm pit.
I need to find a way to freeze the bones to make the feet stay in one place.
I need to find a way to change the body image for a torso rotate during the punch, I have no idea how to pull that off since the body has a dozen bones and one image from head to toe except for her arms and hair.

[synthsin75]

Hey that's not bad. Like you said it still needs some work, but nice bit of action.

[slowtiger]

If you fix the legs (feet are sliding around) and the line width (too thin for my taste), your animation is already better than what I have to endure on TV.

Remember to work economically. Don't waste precious time into boob wiggling for a scene which is only 2 seconds long.

[super8mm]

Thanks!

Now off to the "how do I..." department.

[super8mm]

Might want to fix the hair to look less rotating, other wise I'm quite please with my first animation using ASP.

[slowtiger]

That's amazing. But I wonder how much time you spent on this single scene, and how long a whole film would take...

[super8mm]

I've learned much recently, every mistake I've done will teach me to not repeat in the future speeding up the process. I love how once you have the art and the skeleton and layers made you just manipulate the bones et voila near instant results. One mistake I did is where I needed to make a switch layer to switch the torso angle pose for the punch swing.

I drew the two different poses
Made a copy of the bone layer for the body skeleton
Made a switch layer
Change the art on the copy switch
Animated the bones for each layer

What I should have done was:

Draw one pose
Animated the bones
Made a copy of the bone layer for the body skeleton
Made a switch layer
Change the art on the copy switch
Adjust the bones copy to the new art

The first way meant that I had to animate both bone copies, the second way the bone layer copy would duplicate the bone animation and I would just have to do minor adjustments instead.