Sword Swing (animation practicing)

[jakubg1 440]

"I have Mine-imator about 1 year and I cannot animate almost anything, despite often practices".

This is the sentence that describes and shames me both. Because I haven't an account on the forums earlier, I couldn't share my attempts at animating. But I have an account now and I was practicing sword swing today, I share the animation. My target is to obtain some advices that help me animate.
Alert! Cringe, cringe, cringe... (gif)

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Watched? Please tell me how to improve this and let the downvotes and minuses go around...

[Creeperz Animations 86]

3 hours ago, Nerdinq said:

I recommend you just quit and play CS:GO. I don't regret it at all.

That's not a very nice thing to say, he asked for help, not insults

[Creeperz Animations 86]

@jakubg1 I think you were going for something like this:

 

Edited September 24, 2017 by Creeperz Animations

[jakubg1 440]

7 hours ago, Creeperz Animations said:

@jakubg1 I think you were going for something like this:

 

Yes, you are right. I'll try again today basing on this GIF.

[jakubg1 440]

I'm done. Is it better?

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Edited September 24, 2017 by jakubg1
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[Creeperz Animations 86]

1 hour ago, jakubg1 said:

I'm done. Is it better?

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HUGE IMPROVEMENT! Great job! (Almost better than mine, lol)

[jakubg1 440]

18 minutes ago, Creeperz Animations said:

HUGE IMPROVEMENT! Great job! (Almost better than mine, lol)

I now see the difference between animating being weak (after many hours of other work) and being rested (I now animated first time doing this just after turning on the computer (the gif was saying: "recreate my animation" )). I must follow this "rule", and finallly I see my future (also at rigging)

So, I basically put into the gif program your animation, and I analyzed it frame-by-frame. Then I recreated the first frame and... No more watching on the gif, I did the rest myself. The effect was in 1 hour, as the first, weird gif.

If you want, I can send you (or even share on these forums) the animation to open in the program.

Anyways, thank you!

[Creeperz Animations 86]

On 9/24/2017 at 10:06 AM, jakubg1 said:

I now see the difference between animating being weak (after many hours of other work) and being rested (I now animated first time doing this just after turning on the computer (the gif was saying: "recreate my animation" )). I must follow this "rule", and finallly I see my future (also at rigging)

So, I basically put into the gif program your animation, and I analyzed it frame-by-frame. Then I recreated the first frame and... No more watching on the gif, I did the rest myself. The effect was in 1 hour, as the first, weird gif.

If you want, I can send you (or even share on these forums) the animation to open in the program.

Anyways, thank you!

It took you an hour? Oh well, who am I to talk, that was me when I first started, as you get better, it won't take you as long.

[Frost 3.3k]

On 9/23/2017 at 5:01 PM, Nerdinq said:

 don't sin or else jesus won't save you today.

Jesus will save you even if you sin. If He didn't, He wouldn't be saving anybody.