Koh's New Sprite Joint

[TheShyGuy]

I meant to imply that his mid-res walk is over exaggerated- specifically his shoulders moving waay too much for a walk. I didn't mean to add exaggeration either. When I said that things moved too linear, I meant that things goes from A to B without ..well what I said before - acceleration. There's no slowing down or speeding up of anything when they change directions. The arms, shoulders and legs move linearly in your animation. They rotate forward and then back without slowing down. It's ok if you had less frames or lower-res. But if you're going to go that extra step in smoothness, simple tweening isn't enough. It's not enough in 3D animation either. You can't make 2 key frames and think that interpolation will make things move correctly that way they should. With CG, you have key tangents which help create the kind of easing you want. In 2D, you have to do it all manually. Just filling the in-betweens linearly spatially means having linear tangents which means no easing and things stop and go in a robotic manner.

Also, when people walk, their knees still swing forward (dragging back / lagging behind the upper leg). It's more subtle than during a run, but it's there (I'm not implying to exaggerate the movement at all). I just noticed that you reuse the exact same frames for your arms and legs going forward and back. This is what I'm talking about. When the knee comes forward, it looks nothing like how it was going back. The foot doesn't hit the ground midway going forward either. It makes the legs look like they're in a hamsterball skiing back and forth.