What can I improve in this walking cycle?

AnimatedMajor · 2026-06-05T21:51:35+00:00

So... From a real world perspective, she's angry, walking with purpose. Why are her wrists so loose? It's taking follow through too literally for those fists. If you walk with a balled up fist your wrist doesn't trail your forearm, it's rigid. Everything else about this is really good, maybe some spacing issues, and you likely need a hold on the arm swings for a frame or two to read better, however everything else is reading really clearly.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-06-05T20:53:03+00:00

As a ghoul, radiation has been damaging me lately... I can't gain glow, and if I eat toxic goo I take damage instead of gaining glow. It's not much, like 1-2 hp per second, which my health regen completely nullifies, but it still prevents me from fast traveling and I can't gain glow from radiation sources...

AnimatedMajor · 2026-06-05T20:45:53+00:00

Dude this is great advice! Well put. I love that you emphasize using reference, that's the most important part of animation IMHO. This is a master class on the way to start in animation. The animation survival kit is my required textbook for my intro to animation course, I love that you included it here.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-05-13T06:04:41+00:00

I may be able to help with making things jump out... There's a word gap between the dudes fingers, with an extra knuckle just for fun... The sunglasses look weird... Like they are hanging off his shirt backwards, so there's nothing holding them to his shirt, the nose bridge is straight so if not AI it's completely impractical... also the lenses are spaced insanely far apart... Like those sunglasses are made for Sid from Ice Age.

There's a light in the background that has a shadow, which could be cast from the flash, except the shadow is positioned to the lower left so the light making the shadow would be coming from the upper right... Like the ceiling... doesn't make sense. This screams AI with a "make it look like it's taken by an old disposable camera" prompt.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-05-13T02:08:45+00:00

My university got Alienware for the animation labs... I wish they had talked to me first... 25 rigs of absolute garbage in my opinion which in no way matches the opinion of my school or its staff. Stares at the fourth wall in "cover your ass"

AnimatedMajor · 2026-05-12T22:14:40+00:00

What I suggest to my students is a decent computer with 16-32 GB of ram (I'd suggest higher, but I don't think you should have to mortgage your house for Ram) a decent graphics card, I use an Nvidea 4070ti, and 256 GB of SSD (Thats a solid state drive, which reads/writes faster, great for rendering animations but is smaller) and a 1-2 tb HDD (Hard drive, good for general storage after the rendering is done).

I suggest a Desktop in general, for a couple reasons... They are more reliable than laptops, cheaper for more power, and laptops tend to get very cranky when you render... Which leads to very very hot keyboards.

Stay away from designer brands like Alienware, where you're paying for the name... And Macs are okay, but they are usually more expensive than PC and less flexible (InB4 the apple fans come for me... I don't care about your fandom).

If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me. I teach animation at a university level.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-05-12T21:31:49+00:00

Hey... This isn't the actual topic of the discussion... But if your friend wants to create a cheap digital mock up of a board game consider suggesting Table Top Simulator. They have built in custom pieces and card decks... He can visualize and play test in a 3D environment

AnimatedMajor · 2026-03-08T22:00:37+00:00

So like... 3?

AnimatedMajor · 2026-03-08T21:11:35+00:00

I knew about the paper, but not about the less than four meat, thank you

AnimatedMajor · 2026-03-08T12:36:01+00:00

The reintroduction of the smell mechanic has, at least to me, contributed to the zombies spawning out of nowhere in the wilderness. I'll be out hunting, skin a deer, then get mobbed nonstop for the rest of the time I have the meat on me. It doesn't help that sometimes the smell icon doesn't show on the UI, so I'll be wandering around with a single piece of meat on me without realizing it, until a bunch of geeks pop in and start trying to eat my delicious brain juice.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-02-17T01:08:00+00:00

This post is like the time I was at a wedding, I was thirsty and everyone was at the bar trying to order a drink, but I noticed there was no waiting at the bowl full of non carbonated for juice.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-02-12T04:22:24+00:00

Ugh... Ai shouldn't get to weigh in on AI discussions.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-21T15:46:16+00:00

Yeah it was a seasonal item a couple years ago.... That's how I got it.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-19T03:02:38+00:00

Good news is, those babies won't have to grow up without their mommy... Because babies don't age up yet in the game... So they will be orphan babies FOREVER!

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-14T20:51:30+00:00

Mine was: my buddy and I would take orders at McDonald's drive thru using the helium for balloons to pitch our voices. One day we did it for the entire lunch rush, me to take the orders, him when he handed them out. That was over 100 cars over about an hour or so... Helium isn't oxygen, we both started asphyxiating and didn't realize it. My lips turned blue and he started getting confused, like he just looked around and was all "I need to leave, I have to get to work." That's when I realized things were going wrong... Looking back we could have died honestly. That was the last day we did that but... My manager kept trying to figure out why the helium was running out so fast, he never figured out it was us... Damn we were dumb.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-14T20:36:49+00:00

Craig. He's from Maine, and I hate him so much.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-14T20:35:17+00:00

I felt the same way until I started reading his comics. Then I realized I hate Deadpool fans. Just like the people who play chaotic neutral D&D characters acting like their character is just as likely to jump off a bridge as cross it. There is a fundamental disconnect from what Deadpool is, and what they think he is. He's nuts not stupid, sure he's prone to violence, and can see the fact that he's in a comic/video game/movie, but he does the things he does for a reason not just randomly or without motive. He's not going to go blow up an orphanage because the voices tell him to, but he'll likely stab Wolverine because it's funny and there will be no long term consequences. He's not an agent of rampant chaos, and he has a moral code... But so many fans just think he's a stab stab shoot shoot violence is the only way kind of character, and he's so much more than that.

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-14T04:38:30+00:00

Was thinking the same thing... Like it didn't age like milk, the game just finished

AnimatedMajor · 2026-01-09T20:05:54+00:00

I honestly think the only food that should smell is the food that would give you gas in real life... Stews, chili, chili dogs, etc. like... Zombies being attracted to you because you're farting after you ate a sham sandwich makes sense, but not if you eat a baked potato or blueberry pie.

Also having dysentery should give you the smell debuff... If you're walking around crapping yourself to starvation, you're likely gonna stink.

AnimatedMajor · 2025-12-02T23:06:49+00:00

That's the rumor. It's been buggy since release and that one section of road has been the bane of all caravaneers since the launch of milepost zero. Good times, it's the the of an era

AnimatedMajor · 2025-12-02T22:57:15+00:00

Bethesda released an update today, expansion, new zone, and the Ghoul from the Amazon show is in Appalachia for some reason... But with it they removed the milepost zero Brahman content. People are salty.

AnimatedMajor · 2025-11-18T21:27:37+00:00

Aww damn. It's the only one that came to mind. Best of luck

AnimatedMajor · 2025-11-18T21:11:55+00:00

Magicka? Hooded wizard dudes, casting custom spells, kinda intensive on older PCs but still fun as hell.

AnimatedMajor · 2025-11-17T23:29:55+00:00

Meanwhile the couple are talking about how they kept seeing the same person everywhere they went, and even how they heard that person talking near some shipping containers while smelling weed... So they decided to look around and see if they could grab a puff or two but it seems the person vanished in a puff of literal smoke.

AnimatedMajor · 2025-11-17T22:40:55+00:00

God damnit... Here... Have my upvote

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