Why are you moving the animations like that? I don't see how that is relevant to my point. Did you think "faster" meant moving animations left and right more quickly?

Running = jumping forward a bit with each step. (both feet should be in the air for a small period of time before landing)

Walking, or in this case marching = there's no period of time when both feet are in the air. One foot moves you forward, one foot leaves the ground, the one moving you forward goes back, the one that left the ground "lands" and it's in front of you, you move forward with it, the one in the back leaves the ground, etc. . There's always one foot on the ground when walking.

That is all. To be honest this looks like arguing for the sake of arguing. I don't want to partake in it.

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I'm politely stating that I don't see your point. No need to get defensive.

You are allowed to criticize, as I'm allowed to criticize your points. Am I not?

You were simply stating it doesn't look like a run, but you weren't saying how it could look like a run.

AlexSin said, February 25, 2024, 01:51:46 pm

Why are you moving the animations like that? I don't see how that is relevant to my point. Did you think "faster" meant moving animations left and right more quickly?

The simple notion of walking and running. The concept is to move forward and move forward faster.

He will not stay in a simple spot in game, he will move in the stage. Is a mockup.

This one illustrates it better.



The slow version looks like he's doing a lot of effort to move very few inches, looks like he's losing his breath.

The fast version looks proper.



The 3d version is a jumpy jog. Guillotin3 was inspired by it, but as I see it is not a 1:1 base.

AlexSin said, February 25, 2024, 01:51:46 pm

Running = jumping forward a bit with each step. (both feet should be in the air for a small period of time before landing)

Yes he does it in his 3d version, but do all heavy people run like that? in real life?

AlexSin said, February 25, 2024, 01:51:46 pm

Walking, or in this case marching = there's no period of time when both feet are in the air. One foot moves you forward, one foot leaves the ground, the one moving you forward goes back, the one that left the ground "lands" and it's in front of you, you move forward with it, the one in the back leaves the ground, etc. . There's always one foot on the ground when walking.

People can drag their feet while running. More likely so if they are heavy. Not everyone is an athlete.



I still think the animation is great and it fits Earthquake a heavy guy, he drags his feet in his official walking animation (also used as his backwards walk). Is a hurried up movement, not a marathon run, it even adds a funny element and clumsiness.

AlexSin said, February 25, 2024, 01:51:46 pm

That is all. To be honest this looks like arguing for the sake of arguing. I don't want to partake in it.

I thought we were giving proper feedback, is a shame you want out of the conversation, because I have done a lot of running and walking cycles, I like doing them. And was curious why you see it as a walking and how would you easily fix it, but ok.

Ehi everyone, thanks for the feedback.
For what is worth it, I didn't really reference properly and started working on this just by memory/idea( a mistake most likely).
At some point I realized it came out quite different and wasn't so happy, but felt it the result could have worked just fine on a character that has some comedic elements like EQ so I pushed in that direction rather than probably abandoning everything.
I suppose this expression "wanted to port his running animation to SVC" was really applicable to my initial feeling so I should have worded it differently.

If anything, if I could nitpick something is to make Earthquake gasp, opening and closing his mouth for air. Another comedic element.

I think one major problem with it is that the timing is not selling the weight very well like in the reference. Slowing down his steps in some frames would do wonders to help towards it, along with giving him more up and down movement. You can get away with moving his whole body up and down more, though you'd just need to readjust the posing of the legs to stay connected to the floor afterwards.



Also, made his belly bounce up when he steps up to give him a nicer sense of gravity.