new anim!

New anim for college. pose to pose first, inbetweens added after that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-8KJ02_Wk

Starting to practice making a full atmosphere... this is quite pleasing to see

I reckon you could add a gradient shade that only masks on the animated characters, in which case you can animate them with their default colors but in the end they will fit the lighting. The sheer whiteness makes the robot less connected to the stage. But the shadow is a nice touch to help that cause. I recommend you actually darken the shadow, and the two characters. And if you wanna take it even further, I recommend adding shadows/highlights on the character itself to really feel that light source.

When all the pieces are behaving like they have the same light source, everything comes together.

On the robot's actual behavior though, I don't really feel its emotions. I mean, I understand its emotions, but the way you time each gesture is very unnatural, so it's not very believable. Consider how you'd behave if you saw a dead person. The emotions you animated were correct indeed, but the gestures are very primitive and oddly combined. For example, holding his arms out as he backed up seems frightened, which does make sense, but that gesture doesn't seem to be fully appropriate for that type of fear. I would rather see the arms held out like that while backing up if, say, there was someone scary cornering them.

One more thing on the background, though, it doesn't have a lot of depth. I reckon if you took that pillar and brought it a little closer to the viewer, and darkened it (you can definitely enlarge and darken it without taking up too much space), it would create more depth for the viewer.

Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got, man. Wanna see how freakin' huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Thanks for the motivation.

Very cool. All of those poses express the intentions that I'm sure you had for them.

I would recommend trying not to use characters who will look similar from any angle. Your robot has so much symmetry in his design, that it may be hard to make some frames interesting. I mean, your robot is designed in a way that makes his frames look more similar from one frame to the next than if he had legs or a gooey body, or a pointed head on a long neck.

Alternatively, you could draw up a model sheet where you like seriously break that robot apart and rebuild him into lots of different shapes.

Nice dude I like this! :]

Damn Edy you put everything so well. I couldn't agree more with what's already been said. As well as CN you both pretty much sum up any comments before others can.

The only thing I can say that doesn't look like has been said is that your keys stand out a bit. I can see you're still getting the hang of In-betweens. I think that if you want quicker, more exaggerated reactions to show more emotion, you should put maybe more frames into the easing "in" and "out" motion than the actual in-between motion. (I hope you understand my way of putting it.) I'm sure you know what I'm implying and I can see you're learning it as well as I am. And slowly, getting the hang of this makes animating so much more fun, and better looking.

Keep it up man!

@Steeze
On the contrary, it seems perfectly fine to repeat the same advice; it only tells the artist that this many people are telling him to do the same thing, so it hammers the advice in even more, if anything.

If a word of advice was only said by one person, it's not nearly as effective as 5 people repeating it.

Understandable, I just figured since it's been said so well, there's no need to go in detail again about the same piece of advice. I just figured a simple, "I agree with whats been said" should suffice. But I guess a bit more detail on "what's been said" would be more effective, yea.

At the end of the day, you can do whatever the FUCK you wanna do