Public tutorial "The way I animate sprites"

[LutiChris]

If a position doesn't have a smooth transition, then i basically merge 50% of the two layers. and then trace/color right over it.

[YinYin]

cuz animating is too general-if u want to make ur animations better u should read about those:

-how to use a specific program (probably for beginners)
-how to sprite (not much to say for that)
-how to draw a dynamic pose

shading unlike animating is a subject that u can explain it and there is alot to discuss about it
tuts about shading teaches u how to understand the light to know where it hits ur object

There is a lot to discuss about 2D animation - you are just clueless yourself it seems.

I wish I had the time to prove you wrong as I am still planning to do over here:

chronological in the sequence one would create a character:

1. Sketch/Proportions
   
2. Colors/Shading/Details
   
3. Render/Outline
   
4. Animation (steps 1-3 with a bigger picture in mind)
   

Creating good animations is not trivial. You may get it right by intuition - but if you don't really know what you are doing you may run into some pretty bad limitations. And I think EXG9s post got that point across very well already.

in ur 'animating' tut u just 'teach' how to sprite again in each frame aka "animate frame by frame" -Gad.

That may be true so far - but that doesn't mean it's not possible to properly explain how to make good, smooth animations.

[NightmareX1337]

I think you guys are confused between meanings of spriting and animating.
Spriting is simply drawing which can done by using different variety of methods
Animating is putting sprites/frames synchronously
-So someone change the title or let's talk about "animating"