constructive criticism! (even though this is better than anything i could ever try to do haha)

at the beginning, she looks a bit hunched over, might wanna fix that posture to make the walk look more natural.
In terms of being natural, there are some physics kinks that need to be worked out, firstly seen in the hat flying off, somehow gaining the trajectroy back and upwards, which is strange, seeing she's moving down and right. even if you account for the air resistance wiping the cap off her head, it wouldn't be flung back and up, most likely would either get launched forwards or something.
second in physics is that scarf. Looking at it, it should probably have kept going, falling over her head or something, instead of somehow rigidly straightening back out and defying gravity by looping up and back down again.

Also, her left arm seems to go up, and out as she's tripping, then as she hits the ground, disappears suddenly to i don't know where hehu.

Also the general mechanics of tripping (at least, from what I understand) is one of your feet do something that you don't expect it, and your body keeps going, causing crap balance, ending with the fall. What the body is usually doing is moving up and forwards, not just forwards. So basically, your tripping arc isn't a hinged fall, but your body does go in a little parabolic arc-ish type thing.

Again, also another thing to consider is the footwork that happens when someone does in fact trip. Usually it's not a very passive thing, and your body will instinctively work to get balance by rapidly moving the other foot forwards and such, (also potentially adding to the arc mentioned above)

Basically, the key to animating alot of things (at least in my very inexperienced opinion) is to keep things looking natural, and not forced. Idk if this also might be helpful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzNiCtxtAzw which is just a 3d base for tripping that you can refer to maybe.

Still all in all, a good piece of work:3

hehe she probably looks hunched over at the start because this was studied from life and i was braceing myself before the fall XD

and yes the hat falling dose look odd. i wish i has some sort of refrence for this but unfortunatly i do not own any hats.

with the footwork this is most likely my falt with making my referance footage. since i had to fall i suppost i never thought
of tying to stop myself.

Thank you for the link but we are strongly discoraged from using other animation as referance when animating.
for two reasons one there is no grantee there animation will be a true reflection of life aswell as if eveyone animates
the same thing in the same way it get extreamly boring and you want to stand out when applying for a job

Thank you greatly for taking the time to write such a lengthy and interesting comment. i will make sure to take thease things into
account.

-Ferrel

Ahhhhhh yes, then you run into really big problems.for the hat, maybe some mesh pants, or thin shirt (or underpants if you're feeling particularly venturous) would work well for hat simulation. Basically, at least a piece of cloth that would fall off your head.

And as for reference footage, yeah that's going to be incredibly hard, because actual tripping is hard to emulate on purpose, and when falling, it's really hard not to reflexively put your arms out to stop yourself (also a flaw in that linked reference)

so unless you have some mats, and are willing to risk hurting your face when falling...i don't really know x3

but in any case, good luck in animating future things!

Well i wont be doing underwear i have to film my reference footage in a
shared student flat *chuckles* thanks a bunch for all of this.

lol bitch feel :3c

hiiiiii ferrel~

indeed...

hey

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yes =]

*hug* c:

*hugs*

So, you're studying animation as part or an arts major? Or you're doing full on animations?

Full, i'm in my first year.

Well congratulations. I wish you luck in it. Seems to be a dying thing, what with computers these days. Look forward to seeing your future works (If you're willing to post em)

hehe well thank you. on my course we handle all types of animation and next year i will get my hands on some CGI programs.
Will be cool to model some stuff. gona have to make a choice between drawn and computer. x.x

If you ever need any idears *taps head* I got thousands. So much so, every time I try to draw. They all want out.

*chuckles* well we mostly do what the uni tells us but next year we have more freedom. i will keep ya in mind =P

Man every time I watch this I wish I could do that! And all this in your 1st year I'd love to see what you can do later this year or next year!!!

hehe thanks allot. hopefully you will be able to see something cool soon have to animate a folk tail for a project.
should be finished in 4 weeks... haven't stated yet XD.

But i will upload when its done.

And i see no reason you couldn't if you would like i could give you some tips

Hmmm...some tips...sounds great!!!

But first I should put up what I can do now.

hehe ok when ever you need some help feel free to note me =]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. =)

Frame by frame animation I just love it
Its a pain though xD

hehe i hear that XD

fail XD