[2D animations] Stylized Tiger

baukjespirit

Hi everyone, my first post on polycount here I wanted to try animation for a change, so now I'm working on making animations for a stylized tiger concept I made earlier. I just finished a run cycle and now I'm working on a jump animation. Any feedback is welcome! (Also reference material is welcome too, I'm having a hard time finding good jump references :P )

UPDATE: Jump Cycle



Run cycle


Jump animation WIP

Blond

Huge props! Keep going at it. At first, I thought it was cel shaded 3D since it was so smoooth! Good job on the main motion!

I'm trying my hand at traditionnal too and it's really tough!

aesir

wow that rocks!  Dealing with those stripes must be challenging!

slipsius

Love it! can't wait to see more!

volaille

Hi! your animation looks rock solid !

If you need some jumping references, I worked on tigers a few month ago so let me share what I found : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpo74Ba1aA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6r-Vf3fcVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpA2TixqUw

hope it helps

It looks a LOT like a house cat, just with more power and weight behind it (also they love water )

melviso

Nice work..How did you get the stripes and details to be so proportionate. Did you use After Effects or some sort of morphing tool to get the stripes and soft shading to look consistent? Reminds me of this guys work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP3RTD9G_8
Yep, no 3d involved.
and Klaus, the animated movie sergio pablo studio is working on.
EDIT:
Wow..you used Krita and the morph tool. Great job mate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZGKygJ-SE

Tomiajayi

post more of this stuff!

volaille

for the jump animations, felines tend to raise their front legs in anticipation before jumping. they tuck them under the chin and the head tends to be really stable during the jump. eyes on the prize ^^

baukjespirit

Thanks a lot everyone! Just noticed my post is featured on the front page.. that was unexpected  

@volaille
Haven't seen the first video yet, that's exactly the reference I've been looking for, also thanks for the tips!

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Here's an update:

mhiln3

I don't do 2d animations so I do the know the effort put into this, but just as someone in the audience, I think it's awesome! The only thing that compelled me to write this is that at the end of the animation, the tigers front left elbow makes a fairly clean right angle. I don't know if this is purposeful or not or even how hard it is to fix, but it makes the rest of the animation feel less lifelike to me and more like it just a computer generated animation. But other than that, awesome

Chimp

nice but a bit soft/floaty for both, wants to be snappier / heavier i think.

LluisCavalcanti

Interesting animation. Try to work a bit more on the weight of the animal, even though is stylized, you should be able to feel it.
For example, on the jump animation, really spring the body, place the upper body on top of the rear legs to give the weight to the jump.
Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qerL893QDTY

Chimp

original:

edit:

its a hacky edit where i've simply and indiscriminately halved the frame count. this edit alone isnt sufficient, but i think you should start refining it by dropping your number of frames and making better use of them, dont want floaty, do want snappy and characterful. Wants some breath in the bound and compression before it perhaps.

lots of classic animation is really 12fps doubled

Felixvivier

This Tiger animation is really lovely ! I want to see it running in the wild.

Great edit by the way @Chimp, it does feels way more natural just dividing the number of frames !

_adamturnbull

Awesome stuff so far! I agree with others about it feeling a little floaty though, the movement is all great but tweaking the timing and spacing would help it a lot!

On the jump it seems to jolt down too quickly. I feel that it should hang for a couple more frames, then come down and have a heavier landing. Stretching it out slightly on the ground contact then compressing it in will add a nicer feeling of weight.

Looking forward to seeing more!

baukjespirit

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I added the finished jump animation to the startpost 


Thanks for the edit, @Chimp ! That already makes it look way better. I'm probably going to revisit every animation once I finished the rest of the animations.

TheBrokenTangent

First of all, fantastic work! The style and colors are great!  I feel like your timing and spacing are solid as well!

The one thing that really catches my eye is the tiger's back left leg after it lands on the jump.  At the starting frame the foot is back, then it comes together for the jump and the landing which works great.  But after it lands, that foot aburuptly moves back to that starting frame.  Stands out to me every time for me.  Maybe adding some more weight transfer to the other back foot after the one in question reaches it's end frame?  

Great work!  The run looks awesome!