This was an animation exercise where I had to make a walk cycle with personality and a background with a parallax effect

Plank the parrot walking across a ship

Part meme part walk cycle exercise. Song:Super Mario 3D World and The Notorious B.I.G. Mashup by DasonRZ: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1XdaXvB-k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1XdaXvB-k</a>

Villain Walk

This month I challenged my self to animate a wacky, walk-cycle every week! 

This March I challenged myself to animate a bunch of wacky, weekly, walk-cycles! From a determined march, to a swaggerific stroll, to a silly saunter, to a sneaky stalk, through to a sassy strut! Just an animation exercise really :3

Marching March 2024

I tried out the double bounce walk method on my demon character, and it actually worked! The extra bounce in his step makes him look so gosh darn happy! XDRead 'bout mai demon boi in Webtoons. (Only if you wanna of course!)<a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/yoyo-buddy/list?title_no=466970" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Yoyo Buddy! | WEBTOON (webtoons.com)</a>

Yoyo's Double Bounce Walk

Tweened walk test next to initial sketch animation

Tweening test

Thiiis was for an animation walk-cycle project. I obviously got carried away.

This is just a sh*tpost. I'm pretty funny, yea.

The Museum of Needless Repetition (feat Nicholas Cage)

This is just practice. Nothing more.

Messy Walk Cycle

Made on my phone during Olympic commercial breaks. Yeah…

Poobird

... WARNING: VERY MILD EYESTRAIN RISK. (Maybe... just being safe.)I recommend using headphones.... A lot of this will make more sense if you experience <a href="https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/732168">[ Wired Seed ]</a> first.(the bugged filter due to Flash death I'll fix eventually,the old outdated art style and design choices,and strange audio mixing aside...) <a href="https://youtu.be/1h8jKTRtYLU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">[ YOUTUBE VER. ]</a> <a href="https://toyhou.se/~world/33536.psiridea-systemate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">[ ABOUT PSIRID.SYS ]</a><a href="https://toyhou.se/3850876.niyue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">[ ABOUT NIYUE ]</a> ... the idea of this experiment: throw myself into one of the advanced things I so want to make, and find out exactly what is stopping me. a 2-week sprint due may 31st, to stretch for insight, exorcise the fear of starting and the like.I definitely figured things out, so it worked! but it became a 1 month and a half marathon lmao. it was really difficult to keep going some days due to my still weird sleep cycle, but also SO and I's bad financial situation causing us a lot of stress. (we're managing.) BUT! all these productivity experiments are getting me somewhere... :0 ... I've paired my music and my animation before (see: Wired Seed and <a href="https://twitter.com/xi_eonling/status/1340648053892657154?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">[ this ]</a> part of the Flash Retrospective), but this! a lot of firsts here: <ul><li>scoring a video, with a script and beats to respect.</li></ul>just typing that is unreal oh my god. it involved a lot of back-and-forth between video editing software and DAW, which almost crashed everything a few times, but it was a fun process :D <ul><li>a better demonstration of psiridic sound design / foley.</li></ul>I did do the SFX in Wired Seed, but this feels... more purposeful.the wind is the only fully borrowed clip. I'll explain when I upload the song! <ul><li>trying proper mixing-mastering!</li></ul>original tracks made with GarageBand for comfort, but the actual mixing process is a whole new thing... damn it's fun <ul><li>...m-m-my voice in publiccc,,</li></ul>heavily fx chain'd for good reasons and only a few seconds' clip but uh,,,,, hi i did say i sing haha...... oh no i'm so going to regret this <ul><li>Dualpetal but in a legit standalone upload...!</li></ul>Dualpetal is the final (anglophone / non-conlang) name I gave to the song that contains the motif here. I've been writing it for a long time... the lyrics are far from final and the whole thing is not that complex, but it's been very closely tied to Niyue's character / mindset / story since its creation.... uhhh the stupid second thoughts about how I hate this are setting in again so: this is the first of post-2020!eonling's slow-but-sure stream of animated / interactive content. I'm thinking of another big sprint for something of the latter kind, hopefully this year but no promises. I hope you look forward to this multimediatic PSIRID.SYS! I definitely do. ... a thank you to S. the funny music man (ykwya) for all the music and theory talk;{ wind noise } © <a href="https://freesound.org/people/jgrzinich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">John Grzinich</a>;{ project, artwork, music } © <a href="https://xi-eonling.carrd.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Xi-eonling</a>.

.+ aetherea.

This assignment was a difficult one for me and I know some parts look strange still but hey, for my 2nd ever walk animation it's not too shabby. Done using Maya.

Stylized Walk Cycle

Just something I did for a walk cycle exercise, it's the second walk cycle I've ever done, the first one with a background and detailed character. Simple but it came out way better than I was expecting it to! maybe I'll add sound/music if/when I find a looping track that fits??

Struttin'

A visual metaphor for all aspects of life.

This was done in an animation class where I learned very little. We just had a few days (maybe 10 hours in total) to make a short flash animation. I was done in about 6 hours. Anyway, it's just kinda experimental, trying to exercise my animation skills, incorporating walk cycles, plants growing, masking, tweening, and loads more. There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere, not sure what though.. :)

Growth.

This is a collection of all the best traditional animation I did over the last year for school. By traditional I mean not done in flash but actually all drawn out and shot with good ol pencil and paper. Imagine that! Some of them are just exercises like walk cycles and jumps but there's a couple things that approach actual short cartoons too, so there should be something for everyone. Hope you enjoy!