Hey guys! I need some help with animating please. I want to know how to get smooth animating, when a sprite glides or a backdrop changes. Any advice?

Hey sis!!! and you just need to take your time. Like if you rushed that would make it less special. It usually takes a month or so to make a good animation.
It is worth it!

Hey there, I'm purr101 and I'm here to help!

What specifically are you trying to do? You can use equations to make a sprite travel in a curved line, if that's what you mean.
This is the basic framework:

define travel along function "f of x" for (length) pixels
set y to (f of (x position)::custom)
repeat ((length) - (1))
change x by (1)
set y to (f of (x position)::custom)
end

charlottelucy15 wrote:

Hey guys! I need some help with animating please. I want to know how to get smooth animating, when a sprite glides or a backdrop changes. Any advice?

If you are talking about the jerkiness of an animation, it depends on how many frames you use to depict a motion. A 4 frame walk cycle looks more jerky than an 8 frame walk cycle.

footsocktoe wrote:

charlottelucy15 wrote:

Hey guys! I need some help with animating please. I want to know how to get smooth animating, when a sprite glides or a backdrop changes. Any advice?

If you are talking about the jerkiness of an animation, it depends on how many frames you use to depict a motion. A 4 frame walk cycle looks more jerky than an 8 frame walk cycle.

Okay. Thx!

charlottelucy15 wrote:

Hey guys! I need some help with animating please. I want to know how to get smooth animating, when a sprite glides or a backdrop changes. Any advice?

Smooth and clever animating Requires the 12 principles of animation
1. Squash and Stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
6. Slow In and Slow Out
7. Arc
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid drawing
12. Appeal
12 Principles of Animation Tutorial

MarioTnt wrote:

charlottelucy15 wrote:

Hey guys! I need some help with animating please. I want to know how to get smooth animating, when a sprite glides or a backdrop changes. Any advice?

Smooth and clever animating Requires the 12 principles of animation
1. Squash and Stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
6. Slow In and Slow Out
7. Arc
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid drawing
12. Appeal
12 Principles of Animation Tutorial

Thx!