Animation

[tacit stream]

Hello!! I need tips on how to make my animation smoother!! It’s my first time animating and I’m not sure what to do 🥹

Right now it’s at 6 frames per sec!!!
It’s supposed to be someone walking with the dress flowing back and forth !!

[sour moss]

Since your animation is 6 fps, that’s the main reason it feels choppy.

1. Increase FPS (biggest upgrade)
   For walk cycles and flowing fabric:
   ● Try 12 fps for beginner-friendly smoothness
   ● 24 fps is industry standard but more work
   You don’t always need to draw more frames, you can also:
   Duplicate some frames
   Or use “onion skin” and add in-betweens between your key poses
   Think of frames like stepping stones. Right now they’re too far apart.

2. Use Keyframes → Then In-betweens
   For a walk cycle:
   Draw these first:
   ● Contact pose (foot touches ground)
   ● Down pose (body lowest point)
   ● Passing pose (leg passes middle)
   ● Up pose (body highest point)
   Then add small drawings between them to soften the motion.
   This alone makes animation look 10x smoother.

3. Dress movement should lag behind the body
   Clothes don’t move with the body instantly. They:
   □ Follow after the movement
   □ Overshoot a little
   □ Then settle back
   So when the body goes left →
   The dress should go right slightly →
   Then follow left →
   Then bounce back gently
   This is called follow-through & overlap and it makes fabric feel alive.

4. Turn on Onion Skin (if your app has it)
   This lets you see previous and next frames faintly.
   Absolute lifesaver for:
   ■ Smooth motion
   ■ Consistent proportions
   ■ Flowing dress animation

Lastly,flip your animation constantly
Play it again and again while fixing tiny things.Pros literally watch their animation on loop like detectives.

Thats it if you need for help just dm me!

[tacit stream]

Omg that’s a lot of helpful information tysm

OKAY I JUST READ OVER IT THAT HELPS ALOT IM GONNA GO TRY THAT

[sour moss]

Np buddy yww

✨️

[sour moss]

Suree

[sour moss]

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[solar frost]

@tacit stream hey just wanna inform u kaeya got banned cuz he used chatgpt to generate that feedback for u

Its good advice tho but totally ai generated

[tacit stream]

Oh ew I just thought he was genuinely some kinda pro 🙁

[solar frost]

Yeahhh :/

[worthy mauve]

Do not discuss ai in any capacity in this server. Its against the rules

[solar frost]

Not discussing at all just pointing out they should atleast know the feedback wasnt actually from a real person

[worthy mauve]

Mentioning it is a form of discussion. Its a controversial topic and it is against the rules

[tacit stream]

Am I allowed to keep this open until I’m done with my animation? Maybe get tips throughout the entire process?

[worthy mauve]

You can keep the thread open. Just dont discuss or mention ai from this point forward

[tacit stream]

Okeyy i wasn’t even the one talking about it but okii 🥹🥹

Added arms 🤞🤞

[knotty raptor]

this is so irrelevant but the way you draw bases is so fricking cute

[pine shard]

https://youtu.be/uDqjIdI4bF4?si=qaCXlosHJ4IYX6Zn

Here is a great video I got sent a while back about animation

[tacit stream]

AWW TYY