Still looks great even w/ suck video compression
long live 2D animation !

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the animation looks good.. my only problem is that his tail jumps around alot rather than being smooth like the rest of it.

Yeah, I noticed the tail after shooting. (I should go back and re-draw those couple frames....sometime)

I think I lost track of which direction it should have been going in terms of secondary motion while I was doing it, that and most of it was during the wee hours of the day rushing to finish it to pass it in hehe.

RUn dax run! looks good

Nice one.

ottsels don't run, they scamper. ;)

We also scurry!

Until crushed by heavy objects :P

We try to avoid that whenever possible.

...which is not very often.

yay cutie ! though in the PSP game
"Daxter" he runs on all 4's

hehe yeah, I think at the time I just wanted to do a run cycle but not go through trying to do a quadruped one as this one was enough of a pita to do.

I think too, at the moment I was just in a Daxter type drawing mood so it ended up being that :)

Hee - is cute tho - Daxter looks like he's running for his life :p

Classic animation made into browser compatible digital form. Good job!

Hardly anyone wants to do the labor-intensive frame-by-frame animation method, but it's still hard to argue the old method doesn't produce superior quality end product, especially if you have someone good at bump and squash (or whatever the dynamics of toony characters is called).

Squash and stretch ^.^

Oh yeah, I love the old school frame-by-frame animation. It has this quality of making things actually feel more real in artistic type ways rather than making objects look 'real' in 3D computer generated animation. You can definatly get the feeling of life and character in 3D, but it can never replace traditional. Well, cept in time and cost anyway :)

I'm amazed by what classic (or at least some classic methodology is used) animated features and TV shows are produced today. Have people gotten better at making flash or whatever animation software do Squash and Stretch, or are there enough people who will still take a job doing this hard work, and actually make a living at it?

"South Park" you can probably crank out using only Flash authoring, and it seems to me that "Sealab 2010" can also be done using the same tools. Stop-action stuff like "Robot Chicken" and claymation is also damned labor intensive, too... but wouldn't miniaturizing servos and robotics allow one to in some cases accelerate the process?

Hey... he's cute!

Flippin neat!

wow, nice man. I could never get mine to look this smooth. Very nice.

Cool. I need to do that more.

BTW: There's a free stop-motion animation frame grabber that can assist in putting cartoon animations together as well. All you need is the video out on your camcorder and an analog capture device, which it sounds like you already have. It assembles the individual frames into an AVI file.
Link is here: http://www.animateclay.com/anasazi/smafull.exe

Nice bit of traditional animation. I also enjoyed the stop-action bits from your demo tape.

^_^ I love Daxter

That's pretty cool.

His legs are a little long, but overall this is cute ^_^

look at him go! :D

So you drew each frame for this ? :O aw man thats the first time ive seen someone animate like that since the old diney classics like pinocchio ! :O

Thanks sir ^.^ Aye, drew each one, I believe it was 19 pictures for the cycle. It was such a pain in the ass >.<

hehehe cute ^.^

awesome ^^

Its pretty good the one thing that bothers me is the eyes they're so huge and wide and they don't change, they seem unaffected by the run. Other then that I think its pretty good. ^_^

hahaha! Daxter runs quite like Ratchet!! haha! realy good!

that is so cool

So this is what stole you from WoW for so long! :) It's very cool though I agree about the tail.

WOW! Awesome! XD

Nice! Haven't seen any of your animations until now. Tedious, huh? :)

Ah, I always wanted to give this a shot, but I'm just too inconsistent with drawings to make it look clean.

You did an amazingly good job with consistency. Maybe one day my silly animations can reach a level like this, haha.

REAL animation < 3 Very cool.

The animation looks very good.