Samurai B Short WIP

Yeah Haitam, that's what I meant with false charges.
I think it's cool that you'll make him on his fours by default gives him more character.

I also am gonna have to agree a little bit with what Hitorio said about unrealistic movements. Though it's not really bad if you use realistic motion, it does seem kind of off if you don't add a bit of surrealism in his gestures, since he is incredibly cartoony-looking.

What Tom said about mouth-sword charging seems like it would make a REALLY cool technique that the bear could do sometimes. Come to think of it, it would be really cool if the bear always had some situation-specific, clever-ass move that he could do.
For example if he was facing along hallway-like situation and there was a long line of monster eggs that must be destroyed, the bear could hold the sword hilt in his maw and charge along the line, letting his sword sever each egg!

I've been drawing the storyboard for the last few days and I finished it .
I lost some motivation though ,I have to paint like 70 backgrounds ,animate 70 scenes,add fitting music and sound effects ,record dialog.clean up everything.....this is going to take a long time
and this is with limited fighting
the sword in his mouth is also a very good idea!I'll definitely include it.If I'm still working on it that is....

update :.. cleaned up some parts and added some inbetweens.

LOL oh my god man, that sounds like it'd take months, or a year.

You could consider collaborating with another Psudan or... even a non-Psudan
Also, why don't you show us your storyboard ? It's not like that needs to be completely private. That's the backbone of the animation, you gotta share that bro

/E: I just saw the update. Satisfactory cleaning, my friend
It's really cool how the humans shuffled around in an overlapping manner in one of the shots.
I also found it cool how you made the bear go back to his comfortable stance (all fours) when he wasn't in combat.

You know, I think it would be really, really cool and original if you didn't just make the bear so strong, balanced, and agile like in pretty much every anime. Why don't you make his agility a little lower than you'd prefer (when he's standing on two legs), almost like he can't recover that quickly after he throws a hard swing. Make it seem like a less-than-generic fight. Let the viewer understand the bear's fighting style; let them sense the personality and characteristics in each fighter.

To be honest, this might be too hard at the moment to do all delicate details (that I am suggesting) with great finesse; hell, I might not even be masterful at ALL OF THAT yet, but you definitely should flex your effort in those directions.

I doubt you'll understand what's going on. oh well..

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nothing is definit ,I'm probably gonna change alot ,because it's not very clear what the message was and it's kinda lame...

I'll see what I can do about the bear's fighting style.

Oh man... I think I'm going to get into the habit of making stories, or at least short scenes. The text was hard to read in your storyboard but it's still really cool. Imagine if the animal expert builds a bond with the bear and shit stirs after that.

Man, oh man, oh man... I am so gonna do some short comics / storyboards.

It's so interesting that just from a particular sequence of drawings, you get immersed in another world, if only a little bit.

Hmm... a story... a story... gonna think about that one as I go shower now.

Edyrem wrote:

Imagine if the animal expert builds a bond with the bear and shit stirs after that.

LMAO...the animal expert is killed at the end,killed by that same bear actually....

balls.

I am not sure how to develop a plot. Shit seems so tricky... best i could think of is like, some kids chill after school every day, and they always see some weird shit go down near a cave, and maybe some kid accidentally broke his leg while climbing a tree near the cave, then somehow the friends couldn't find him as it was a rainy, stormy day. Then he faints and sleeps in the cave for the whole night, and perhaps when he wakes up his leg is absolutely fine. Then after trying to prove what happened to his friends, they try putting broken stuff in the cave, and sure enough, everything comes back fixed. Seems like a cool way to start a horror/human nature story or something, but I don't know how I'd explain such a phenomenon.

Wow that was amazing when do you think you'll be able to finish it?

@edyrem That sounds pretty interesting.
explaining it hmm..maybe someone fixes everything inside that cave .but then you need to think of a reason why that someone would do that and how..I'm not really good at this either..

@touma unfortunately I'm going to put this on a hold,I feel like I don't have the skill to make this work just yet.His body structure is hard to animate and I'm not quite satisfied with the story either...

bro what's troubling you with the bear's anatomy? Why is it uncomfortable to animate?

Haitam, you need to simplify his structure, like all those oldschool cartoon characters were created.
basically, his body is like a pear-shape. just a bit out of proportion!, there's nothing else to it! I think what you have to look at is stuff from Preston Blair, he explained this concept REALLY well. It's quite easy to understand.

http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=2091

There you go!
There's a lot of information on Preston Blair's stuff you can find there, he also has a book called
"Cartoon Animation"
I have the book in Dutch as well, It's basically a ust buy if you want to have extra information on how to animate/ draw characters a certain way.
It's a useful addition to The Animator's Survival Kit!

@edyrem let me rephrase that ,I don't find it hard to animate him ,I just can't get myself to do it.
I don't have the inspiration I did when I started this.Idk why.

@tom I don't think simplifying his body will get me to animate him.

Perhaps a challenger would spice things up?

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(Obvious sasuke furry is obvious)