Tutorial Requests

[Jess887cp]

No, because I got my running style from a DDC. I simply altered my loop to look like it was awesome. I used a youtube loop previously. I dont really understand what is so hard about running...ah well. Get a loop already. Heck, look at mine!

[PN42]

Can anyone make a tutorial on stiffness? That's always been a problem for me.

[IKE]

Stiffness is a pretty basic concept and I don't think it would require an example.

Stiffness is avoided by having LOTS of movements, everything moving all at once, this makes your figures appear "loose" as they do in real life.

You can establish this by moving EVERY node in EVERY frame even if it's just by a little pixel. This rule should have very few exceptions. There are very few cases in which a node can or should remain static. You should be able to pinpoint these exceptions easily enough.

Be careful when doing this though. Moving nodes around in random directions will just end up making things look shaky. Try and make sure that all of your movements have good direction, and make sense.

Actually, my avatar is a good example of stiffness. The arms, body, and head have zero movement. I've been thinking that a very slight shakiness and breathing motion would fix this. But that would be hard

Anyway, always remember to ask yourself, if someone were to be doing this in real life, is this generally how it would look? If the answer is no, you know you're doing something wrong.

To sum it up quickly, move everything. Might look a little weird at first, but you'll get the hang of it.

Hope this helps and have fun animating.

[Lynx]

Try just walking by a mirror or punching in front of a mirror or jumping or whatever it is that you want to animate. Observe how you move and try recreate it on Stykz.

[Wind3H]

i want to make a tutorial but i dont know what it should be about :(
(i know its a bump ._-)