Stickman Animation

Hi all,
ich have animated a Stickman. Tell me what you think about it and how i can make it better

save it

i just saw a webpage

It is a .avi file.
Here is the url.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ninophotoshop/superman.avi

its just a guy running and jumping...
it should be a .swf for the flash section

//*Note to everyone, right click and "Save As" to see it

Ok.
Here is the .swf file

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ninophotoshop/superman.swf

If here are some friends, who have stickman animations too, please show me

now why does the stick man jump on the dinosaur?

Thats no dinosaur
Its a mountain and he is Climbing on it

Yo, you like stick animation? Check out Zhu's work with XiaoXiao. Incredible!

http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/xiao.html

Its a good start... Starting off with something like the stick man will help teach you how to animate. That's some smooth animation I see also, so now you can get more detailed and give that poor stick a shirt and pants Hope to see more adventures of stick mans climb of that big rock!

laters
SycomCOmp

not that i wanna be evil but... its not very good... you should make something a little longer... and that something is happening... but its a good start!

that animation is pretty good.

There are some principles of animation that might come in handy. Two that come to mind is anticipation and exageration. For instance, when the character crouches down, before he jumps, you can create more anticipation that he's going to jump by exagerating the crouch and then the release. Same when he lands, when he's running. The way you have it now, the character doesn't have any weight.

On the same note, squash and stretch. If you were to animate a bouncing ball, when the ball is at the bottom, in contact with the floor/ground, it squashes. Then when it on it's way up, it stretches as if its reaching for the apex of the bounce.

Secondary actions/motions. If Bugs Bunny darts out of frame, he winds up (anticipation and exageration, as well as squash and stretch), then SWOOSH. When he exits we see secondary motions of his hat, for instance spinning in mid-air. Some sort of secondary motion could add some more interest, I think.

Kind of random - sorry. Hope it helps.

Here's a link

http://www.comet-cartoons.com/toons/3ddocs/charanim/

//Gorsh!! Almost forgot to move this.