The official animation critique thread!

[wcaclimbing]

This thread is for people to post animations that they have made using Pivot, Flash, or any other animation tool.
People will comment on them and tell you whats good/bad/how to improve.

Here is a very good explanation of the guidelines for this type of thread:

HOW TO USE THIS THREAD

1 )Posting Animations

I hope that you are all familiar with the various Image Hosting sites around the net, but for the majority of the members of this, there seems to be a very serious need for a booster course, so, with apologies to those who do have basic etiquetting skills,

THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT DO NOT HAVE BROADBAND

there are even some people who still use 56k dailup modems. That means that they can only download 56k worth of data every second, and they are charged on a "pay-per-minute" basis. So Image heavy sites will load VERY slowly for them, and cost them a lot of money. They do not want to have to download hundreds of Megabytes of data just to trawl through a forum.
As such, if your Animation is larger than 512k (512 Kilobytes, one half of a megabyte, 524,288 bytes of data) DO NOT POST THE IMAGE. SUBMIT A LINK TO THAT IMAGE.

IF you are posting your first ever animation, FOR LOVE OF ALL YOU FIND DEAR SAY SO; If it is the first in a series PLEASE make fit clear. Everything that you cannot make clear in the Animation should be explained in your post.

Formatting Submissions

step 1) Give background information all about the story of the animation. Let us know about the characters.

step 2) Give technical Information; let us know how long you spent on it, how you made it, what the filesize is..

step 3) The actual Animation itself; or link thereto if the filesize is above 512k (10 second download on a 56k modem)

For complations of gifs in a series (such as abby ratso's Pivot-based series), you are required to edit your post in order to include them. New series may go in a new post; exceptions will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.


2 )Critiquing Animations

Do not, ever, under any circumstances, reply to an animation with
"Wow that sucks" or "good", smilies (by themselves, or more than two adjacent). ALWAYS GIVE REASON as to why it "sucks" or is "good". Poor criticism is worse than even the most scathing report.
That's another thing. Do not rant about how bad the animation is based on how much you like/dislike people, or compared to another person's animation. This is not an animating competition! Conversely, do not rant and rave for hundreds of words, about how fantastically amazing you think your own or someone else's animation is. You think it is great, well, that's fine, but is EVERYTHING your saying Objective fact and not Subjective opinion?

NEVER REPRESENT SUBJECTIVE OPINION AS OBJECTIVE FACT.

Formatting Crticisms

step 1)I liked it because: (Give reasons, if any, why you liked it. This is the place to give positive re-inforcement.)

step 2)I hated it because: (Give reason, if any, why you disliked it. This is the place for constructive Criticism)

step 3)Next time: (Give suggestions, if any, on what the animator should do next time to make it better)

step 4)Overall Impressions: (Imagine you've been given an Inch in a newspaper to talk about the animation; write your overall impressions here)

step 5)The Part of Tens: (Give it a score out of ten. DO not exceed one Decimal point or I will kill you.

One final note, THIS IS A CRITIQUING THREAD. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR ANIMATION TO BE CRITICIZED, DO NOT POST IT HERE.

So basically just take your best animation or two and post them here for others to see and comment on

[wcaclimbing]

here is my first animation:
It is basically a stick that changes into different things and moves around the screen. It is quite random at times, but is pretty entertaining.

It is a little choppy, but its the best i can do.


Edit: done with Pivot stickfigure animator

[littlefishdr]

iliked it but it looked like it was made quickly so i give it a 7.74869707968967574646463 lol hhahahaahhahahahahah

[Wisse]

nice animation i like it when the pieces of the rocket creats a man

[wcaclimbing]

do you guys have an animation that you have made that you want to post?

[spinwizard]

i love it! keep the animations comeing

[Kid_A]

here is my first animation:
It is basically a stick that changes into different things and moves around the screen. It is quite random at times, but is pretty entertaining.

It is a little choppy, but its the best i can do.


Edit: done with Pivot stickfigure animator

HA! i enjoyed that. Post more

[spinwizard]

thats y i bumped it...that 1 was cool

Edit 7/10

[shultz]

I always get static sorry

[wcaclimbing]

i animated my avatar.

I havent used Pivot in a long time. that first one was my only decent one.

Now im messing around with bentons GIF animator. You cant make really smooth animations, but you can make stuff where its ok to have it frame-by-frame. (like my avatar)

heres another one:

[wcaclimbing]

you know, the point of this thread is for EVERYONE to post animations for all of us to see. its not all about me. you guys need to show some stuff you have made.

[spinwizard]

i will soon...any1 else animate?

[wcaclimbing]

well we have 6 votes for "i like to animate stuff"...

[cowshrptrn]

i made some stuff on flash, but it was all shit, i gave up after i started having problems with some of the tweens and my trial expired

[spinwizard]

lol bump again