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Published: 2013-05-02 01:00:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 18379; Favourites: 634; Downloads: 202
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Description 7 frame animation loop
Idle Animation
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Today's Hamster Drop update is a work in progress snapshot of Raye's idle animation.

The only things missing are the shading and the trampoline used to catch hamsters. I'm pretty sure the latter in the important one...

Seven individual frames drawn entirely in Photoshop CS6 Extended.


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Comments: 59

L-Y-N-S [2015-11-12 03:01:55 +0000 UTC]

love this style!

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thatLD In reply to L-Y-N-S [2015-11-26 17:26:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!

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charliey41725 [2015-09-03 01:43:15 +0000 UTC]

love the posistion

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Skullclaw [2015-02-04 20:36:52 +0000 UTC]

Nice

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acnero [2015-02-02 14:37:10 +0000 UTC]

if this is idle, I must be dead cool animation.

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D3M0NHUNT3R117 [2014-11-27 23:08:15 +0000 UTC]

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angeliIy [2014-11-27 06:52:06 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME!

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CAPTAIN-CHETO [2014-03-18 20:07:14 +0000 UTC]

That dance more upbeat and adorable at the same time Β 

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EpicPieFace [2013-11-07 04:39:38 +0000 UTC]

I that's idle, I don't wanna be active.

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grubbeolof In reply to EpicPieFace [2014-02-03 10:52:22 +0000 UTC]

hehe. u said it.Β 

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BrooklynPhoenix [2013-10-09 22:34:59 +0000 UTC]

Cute. haha

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BaraaChan [2013-10-08 23:41:15 +0000 UTC]

cool work

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Syldi-Bears-Workshop [2013-08-25 05:49:49 +0000 UTC]

I'm thinking of making an animation myself someday when I'm a better artist...and honestly, just watching your animations helps me learn a lot!



And, honestly...if you listen to a lot of songs, it pretty much fits her movements. Its actually very interesting!

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Kawaiinekinu [2013-07-27 22:39:00 +0000 UTC]

She is soo adorable! I look forward to more on this, and project 1000!

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sykosan [2013-07-03 14:56:56 +0000 UTC]

Love it ^^

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thatLD In reply to sykosan [2013-07-03 19:50:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, man!

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SolomonMars [2013-05-23 13:24:31 +0000 UTC]

DUDE!
you really got a lot out of seven frames!
GREAT WORK!

i love how rhythmic her idle is
she's got a nice beat going in those ear phones i can imagine
ha ha

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Ji-Li [2013-05-23 04:38:16 +0000 UTC]

She's so cute! I think frame by frame animation is the best way to do 2D animation looks more natural and is more fun to do. I work that way also with my animations also in photoshop
You always inspire me to continue doing it that way whenever I have a reason to do 2D animations xD

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thatLD In reply to Ji-Li [2013-05-23 05:28:26 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thanks.

Just doing what I can with what I've got.

Photoshop keeps getting better at it so I'll keep using it in that regard.

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Ji-Li In reply to thatLD [2013-05-23 07:04:10 +0000 UTC]



Haha and you should keep up with it cause you're so awesome at it xD

Yeah love animation in photoshop. Glad it's now INSIDE of photoshop unlike back when I first had to do it inside of Image Ready when I used Photoshop 7.0 Lots of good improvements for many of adobe programs. At first when I realized there was no image ready I was like "NOOOOOOO!!!" and then I saw it was inside photoshop and I was like "oh. They just moved it inside"

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koujackass [2013-05-07 23:56:26 +0000 UTC]

GROOVEH? . n .

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thatLD In reply to koujackass [2013-05-09 08:22:39 +0000 UTC]

Maybe a little.

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Pin-eye [2013-05-06 02:28:56 +0000 UTC]

Neat

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thatLD In reply to Pin-eye [2013-05-06 23:05:21 +0000 UTC]

Glad you think so.

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Kurumi-Lover [2013-05-03 20:51:12 +0000 UTC]

I get more and more excited everytime you upload something hahaha.
I can't withhold the adorable meter from exploding within me though ; n ;
I'm gonna do it, I swear

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thatLD In reply to Kurumi-Lover [2013-05-04 14:26:13 +0000 UTC]

Glad to hear that there's some forward momentum going on.

I'd actually like to see what happens when that meter blows.

I'm thinking you'll like one more character in the lineup more than the others. We'll see when that one is uploaded.

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Kurumi-Lover In reply to thatLD [2013-05-05 04:41:55 +0000 UTC]

Uhhh you can't be doing this to me, man.
How many more characters are you withholding D:
Raye and Alex are adorable as is, you can't just throw more in there.

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thatLD In reply to Kurumi-Lover [2013-05-06 22:28:44 +0000 UTC]

A few more.

After Raye and Alex there are two more playable characters and two non-playable ones.

One of the non-playables should be going up later today.

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Kurumi-Lover In reply to thatLD [2013-05-07 05:40:10 +0000 UTC]

Woah, 2 more playable characters? That's quite the roster you got going! And are both of the non-playable guys going to be bad or something O:

I'm gonna have to go check it out asap ; u ;

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Brett-Neufeld [2013-05-02 18:42:29 +0000 UTC]

What a fun animation! Gotta see what this is about.

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thatLD In reply to Brett-Neufeld [2013-05-02 20:54:16 +0000 UTC]

Who knows? Might be part of a game or something.

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razoremblem [2013-05-02 15:56:10 +0000 UTC]

Twirk

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thatLD In reply to razoremblem [2013-05-15 21:35:11 +0000 UTC]

She's all set for a music video with that title.

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razoremblem In reply to thatLD [2013-05-17 20:45:51 +0000 UTC]

lol

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mainasha [2013-05-02 15:34:51 +0000 UTC]

looks like shes doing a little dance.

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thatLD In reply to mainasha [2013-05-02 20:54:53 +0000 UTC]

I can only imagine what she looks like when she's actually trying to dance...

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vidgamer123 [2013-05-02 05:34:26 +0000 UTC]

This is not idling! THIS IS GYRATING.

LOOK HOW SHE GYRATES. CAN YOU NOT SEE.

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thatLD In reply to vidgamer123 [2013-05-02 14:23:18 +0000 UTC]

She is idling.

Anything else you see is pure coincidence. I blame it on the headphones stuck in her ears.

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vidgamer123 In reply to thatLD [2013-05-02 15:36:52 +0000 UTC]

I did have some kickin' rad music playing...

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TheGreatGod [2013-05-02 05:05:33 +0000 UTC]

dat hipsway! nice nice work

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thatLD In reply to TheGreatGod [2013-05-02 14:32:31 +0000 UTC]

lol, thanks!

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bulgariansumo [2013-05-02 02:19:20 +0000 UTC]

Whoa! The animation is so smooth (as always)! I love all of the intricate movements!
How many frames did this take?

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thatLD In reply to bulgariansumo [2013-05-02 02:24:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It's seven individually drawn frames with staggered timing.

Timing goes a long way with things like this. We have to use as few frames as possible while still having something lively.

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bulgariansumo In reply to thatLD [2013-05-02 21:37:41 +0000 UTC]

No problem.

By the way, how do you plan the movements?
I usually get to what I think is the end of an animation, only to find out that I have to keep adding frames in order for it to look right.

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thatLD In reply to bulgariansumo [2013-05-06 23:23:51 +0000 UTC]

That usually comes down to honing your sense of timing. A trick to help with that is to voice out sound effects when you're playing back your animation. Anything from the sound of a foot tapping the ground to the sound of the characters clothes flapping in the wind.

Makes what you're doing feel more real.

Probably doesn't answer your question, but that's how I do it.

I've done enough loops to pretty much know how to get from the first frame to the last without too much redrawing. Imagining the sound helps a lot in those cases.

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bulgariansumo In reply to thatLD [2013-05-11 19:03:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I'll try that sometime!

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Skystalker [2013-05-02 01:51:00 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is really awesome! Do you know about how many frames this is?

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thatLD In reply to Skystalker [2013-05-02 01:55:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

Ah! I should have put that in the artist's comments. It's seven individually drawn frames with staggered timing.

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Porto881 In reply to thatLD [2013-05-02 11:01:58 +0000 UTC]

Was the staggered timing a stylistic choice or what? Just curious.

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thatLD In reply to Porto881 [2013-05-02 14:28:48 +0000 UTC]

It's a choice to save on the amount of frames drawn.

The fewer frames used the less memory the game sucks up in the devices that it runs on.
The animation likely plays back slower in your browser than it does at game speed; it feels just right when you see it there.

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