sprites I'm doing for fun

[captainkakarot64]

The animation of Chi Chi being knocked out is a bit choppy and rigid, it doesn't, well, feel natural. It needs to 'flow' better. Might I recommend more frames? If the sprite limitations prevent you from adding more frames, there are other workarounds, such as motion trails or playing the animation faster. Another thing about animations: you don't usually want to make every frame take the exact same length of time. Some animations don't really work well that way, and may need certain poses have different, more varied lengths. Right now, as it is, Chi Chi looks more like a robot or a marionette being knocked out, rather than a human. Might I recommend watching playthrough videos of Sonic Battle to get an idea of how the knock-out animations work? That might give you some idea on the timing, as Sonic Battle has sprites for such animations (and Sonic Battle even has it done differently for different characters). I personally recommend looking at Amy Rose's death animations because she has a skirt, as well as looking at Tails's death animation for the posing of the limbs/body since that one is most similar to the posing in your animation.

Motion trails sounds like a good idea, I'll try that. I can't play the animation fast because the animation from super dbz also goes slow. Amy's skirt is too short to use as a reference for me. But in sonic battle everyone get's thrown in the air when they get ko'd, in super dbz you also have that but there's also another animation where the character just falls on the ground which is the one I based it on.

So I went to not only increase the speed of the fall but also keep it in a reasonable position and this is what I got.



It seems pretty smooth to me but I figure this could help others see it better.

The animation goes way too fast compared to the one from super dbz. I guess the placement is more logical but I'm trying to be as acurate as possible with the animation of super dbz.



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Is this better? By the way it's based on this animation at 29:11