Watched the final episode of Samurai Champloo again, got a few ideas from Jin's fight with his sensei, and then his later fight with Kariya Kagetoki, both using the "Mujuushin Kenjutsu" style, which seems to focus on blinding speed.
Basically I wanted to see if I could replicate the way the animators used frame timing and secondary motion to imply that moves happened so fast, they can't be seen. SO I watched the fights frame-by-frame a couple times, and then tried to do it on my own.
Make sure you FULL-VIEW, zoom in, to see this in motion. The filmstrip is the preview, the full-view is the action!
Near as I can figure, the trick is essentially to imply the path of the blade with flashing arcs that last for one frame, but take place one frame after the character has begun to settle into their new position. You also don't draw the transitional tween for the character, simply move him into each position, add another frame of that position with a slight series of changes based on weight and intertial drift and timing, and then add tweens as needed. The straw dummy serves also to imply that a blow is struck even though we can't see it, by virtue of it's reactive movements.
Makes sense? Awesome!
I think I did okay... I'm sure I'll try this again in something else, soon. As usual, Easytoon, and about 2 hours of work. 23 frames drawn, played at 25 frames a second (give or take a bit depending on your box, sometimes). I like that we have new categories for Animation, finally... I guess this falls under a pencil test, since it serves essentially the same purpose, even though it's drawn digitally.
i wish i could critique this with my opinons but the problem is i can't give it completely, because i don't know anything about animation. I do know alot abotut champloo, but other than that, i can't say a thing.
It helps a lot to have sound... sound being "70% of what you see" and all that... If you haven't seen the final episodes of the show I highly recommend 'em, for the action if for no other reason. They do this kinda stuff a lot.
Check out the filmstrip... "zoom out" from the animation to see it, and you can compare the frames. I realised that the GIF previewer only restricts the horizontal pixel width, not the vertical, so I decided to take advantage of that.
Yeah, I've watched Champloo about five times now. I think, however, that I've watched so much anime and read so much manga as of late that I'm probably all Japan-ed out.
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Please... please.... touch the purple rag doll face...
so its a matter od haveing one frame then in the next fram the implide movement n what not followed by the charcter slightly moving.
well im still new to animation so thats whats how on the inside tip on how you did it.
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Niceeeeee ... what program do u use 2 do this animations ?
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