Looks great! Nice bounce in the step. About how many frames is this?

15 unique frames! The cycle itself, once put on twos, is 31, however.

very cute love how you gie the bounce walk movement

wow

drawing on 2 or 3? just wonderin

2s, but the swf version is super choppy, so it looks more like 3s :(

dawww, well :) still looks awesome and nice and smooth in the mov :) its cute

her left arm is not following up at the same rate her right arm is, but I'm sure you already know that c: sorta wish the overlapping on her head could be more dramatic, and the tail looks like it could use a couple more frames, otherwise this is looking pretty darn amazing c:

Yes! I will definitely keep that in mind when I do my revisions on the arms :)

So you're suggesting adding more bounce to her head, the hair, or both? And as for the tail.. I think it looks okay in the non swf version (lemme know if you disagree!). If it still looks bad there, I think I'd be better off redrawing the tail rather than adding in frames (which would probably mean putting the walk on 1s).

more bounces to her head and her hair would probably have a more exaggerated overlapping, yeah redrawing the tail might be a better way to solve that -v-, being in animation class sort of gave me a habit of shouting "THROW SOME MORE FRAMES IN THERE! D8<" whenever I see things looking a bit choppy XD And I think the thing with the arm is that the keyframe spacing in the arm swinging arch is too even, try putting more spaces in frames between the swing and pack them tighter as it gets near the top of its arch c:

Nice. :3 Looks almost like a skip cycle. Very bouncy. :3

your bounce is nice but make sure to loosen up those arms! Followthrough on that tail is great.

Yeah, the arms really bug me :| I was trying to go for an effect of her really pumping her arms on the upswing, but didn't really go about it the right way. I think I figured out a way that will work a lot better, so we'll see!

And thanks! I'm glad the tail turned out well :) I was really intimidated by it, because I thought I'd do it completely wrong!

One good way of going about it is to do the main body first and do all the overlap later. Try to draw the path of action for your hands archs and work off that. That always helps me when doing walks. Walks are totally the hardest thing to animate XD. Great job on the legs to i gotta say. I can really see the anatomy working underneath. Keep up the great work!

Yeah! I usually start out an animation by drawing my path of action, calculating how much time I need for the action, and then making notches with ease-in/out for my timing. It's very handy! Aww, and thanks, I'm glad you think the legs look good!

And yes, walks are hard, but they're -such- good practice!

Oh man yah notches on the ease in and out are super helpful. Keep up the wonderful work. I know when I finish an animation I feel like I have learned a zillion new things for drawing static images. We will have to get together sometime this semester and you could show me some snazzy stuff with that TV paint! I miss ya!

hehe that is so cool. Nice work

omg, I wanna animate so bad! But I have yet to aquire the coordination plus the tools necessary for it. This looks really well done, much better than I can probably do even though it's "rough" <3

She is walking towards a great destination! It's looking great for a test walk cycle! ^_^

wow.. I love the bounce in the step! I have a feeling this isn't your first time doing this :)

Second time o_o

She's adorable. Give a master artist a light box and what do you get? Excellent quality animations.

I-it's walking...

IT'S WALKING!!!

This is the beginning of something fantastic...

Not bad at all. The hair moves quite smoothly.

that's pretty awesome. How long did it take you to do this?

You are pretty good on that.

You have no idea how much I love this simply for being, at least in part, an old school pencil animation. Flash and other forms of digital animation are cool and all, but they just don't have the same kind of feel that pencil on paper, 2-D animation has. Absolutely love it.

True story:
When I opened this, she was walking in time to the music that I had on. It was mega cool.

Oooh, what was the song?

It was the opening music to Tropic Thunder which I stupidly spent money on renting it. Let me save you $6 by warning you to steer clear, dear.

that sentence didn't make sense. Oh well.

Didn't like the music or the movie?

The music was pretty good. They had the rolling stones in there which made my ears perk up whilst my brother was watching it. The film didn't grab my attention though.
Then again I was obviously browsing FA at the start so maybe there was one killer hook at the beginning. Dunno.

Awesome job Keo! Love how her hair and tail bounce with the movements, very fluid and a nice sence of realism :3

Excellent ^^ ^^

arms jerk forward a leeetle too hard but other than that its awesomely adorable

wow it does look alive

The legs look perfect. Those are what I usually have the most trouble with. I feel like her tail should have a bit more bounce to match her gait though. The arms seem to have a bit too much bounce, but the flow that you've got going between each frame on them is great. This is looking really good so far! Keep it up!

"LEFT FOOT, RIGHT FOOT, LEFT FOOT, RIGHT FOOT, LEFT FOOT, RIGHT FOOT..."

Cute :3

Oh man I remember taking a brief animation class in college and I've forgotten a few key things.

I think the steps are a tad to large, like she's walking over something. And maybe loosing up the elbows would help.

Other than that though it's a good animation and is really cute.

I rather like it It's something I could never do XD.

That looks really awsome! Im working on my own walk cycle as we speak right now. And if ya really want to see some stuff that can help is this book called "The animatiors survival kit". And it fun to look at! Ya can even see it on the website as well ^.^ Anyway, great walk!

I think everyone covered everyhting about the arms so I'll just say nice work.

Good work.

very nice! did you use any tweens? =3 and I just love how its not just a still walk and that there is a nice bounce and flow to her ^^

This wasn't done in Flash, so no shape tweening involved, each frame was drawn by hand.

oh, wow. Neat work. Did you find that easier or more difficult?

I don't like how shape tweens look, or (most) Flash animation for the matter, so I've never done anything that way....soooo.. I don't think I can judge from personal experience, but I find it hard to believe that letting Flash morph shapes for you could be harder than drawing.

lol, you've got a good point there. I've only been learning the very basics and I'll have my first class in it next quarter. Its also traditional animation, so hopefully I'll learn alot that way. Keep up the traditional stuff, there needs to be more of it =3

I can imagine some cute upbeat music playing to this!

You're legs are quite nice. My only issue are the arms. His left and right arm don't quite sync with each other and they feel a bit choppy. I'd like to see a bit more anticipation in the arms and a bit more cushioning.

Now make her walk backwards!

needs bewbs :D heh, kiddin', good job xP

Beautiful work~! Love seeing more animation up here =D!

I might suggest putting a one-two drawing delay on the follow through of the head, so that it looks more like it's following the flow of the body, as opposed to leading.

So is your icon! Did Becky make it?

Wow this is really good.

Cute!! I love the smile and the way her head bounces

thats really awsome nice job

This is Cool. Its like she is marching to some non-existent tune!

If you feel so inclined to read some criticism, have at this...
The leg movements seem exaggerated, like she is wearing massive boots or she is treading through water.
I think its the step in more so then the step out. Mind you, her size would affect this, wouldn't?
On the other hand, I'm no visual artist, so what would I know? XD

besides that and the arms (which you mentioned already), Its Aces, can't wait to see if this gets finished!

she has such a cute little bounce to each step she takes

Sweet as Kio

In what way do you mean?

If you mean for this cycle, yep, I plan to color and composite it. And so far as animating in general, I definitely plan on expanding upon that (especially given it's my major :P)

I wiill keep silence, until you make a movie. ))) than i'll say "my goodness!... " lol)))

Haha, aww, she's so cute. B3
I really like the cartoony look to this.

Arm seems to have a jump on the back motion right before it goes forwards again

Really nice and very cartoony ^^

Not just her legs, her whole body move.

Nicely done, particularly the head and legs. And yes, the .mov file is much smoother than the .swf file.