Well those aren't really bolts though. Aren't they pins? lol I may be getting too critical. But bo's right, whatever they are, you need a few more.

better :D

yay glowing!:


and ya ill fix back end soonz

Make it blue :V

Bro send that to me I wanna aminate

My skin. H3B model.

http://www.xfire.com/video/1eb67d/
http://www.xfire.com/video/1eb6b5/

My first animations/animation set ever. Thanks to UnevenElefant for his tutorial which made me learn very quickly how to animate. I went for a sword because it's basically easier not to have to do with reloads or overheatings, and I decided not to have a "firing" animation because the sword goes well without any lunge. Oh and I'm sorry about the two vids, but I wasn't able to get one vid for good because fraps was buggy when I recorded and I didn't open xfire. I dislike the nade throwing a bit, and it's hard to see the fingers moving on the right hand in the vid. Well, 'nuff said. Crits on how to improve is appreciated :D

Not bad. I rather like the ready style. However, your return to origins after the ready and the melee are way too slow, and seem like you didn't do anything at all after you finished the main part of the animation. Idle animation also should be more noticeable; after all, this is a sword.

Have the fingers on the left hand change positions when your throwing the grenades.

Yep, my main problem was my animations were too slow, the melee was "hitting" in the 20th frame at first. Btw I got what you meant, I'll add some movements in the return to origins to make them look more "interesting", even if I'd like to move onto something else to practice with reloads. And yes, the idle isn't that much noticeable, mainly as I've been moving during the whole two videos, but it's nothing more than a "breathing" effect achieved through a simple moving up and down (no movement at all).

That's right, I almost didn't move them while doing my animations...I'll look that up later.

Thank you both for crit ;)

I like your ready, though the melee could use work. imo the sword kinda looks like hes holding it too much vertically, as opposed to h3, where it's more horizontal, but that's just my taste. Your origins are nice as well though. Get the fingers and left hand to move a bit during the moving animation, and it'll look a lot better too.

The skin ingame.

tagged and pics by [ASP][HMM]GuiltySpark.hsc

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4513/haloce2010011619432310.jpg


http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4080/haloce2010011619442616.jpg



and in this pic by Spartan094

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/1b719135a589c5f5212be42e5d7adca748a29a56.png

Edited by Invader Veex on Jan 16, 2010 at 09:16 PM

<3 it.

I thought that those two pictures were H3 Ingame photos , good job.

Lower the green intensity on the light power button, it's way too bright.
Edited by Advancebo on Jan 17, 2010 at 02:05 AM

yeah its convenient. jwd^^

My new wip

http://www.xfire.com/video/1f06a4/

I am not that happy with the reloads and the fire animations. Just want to hear from you guys what could be improved on them, even by redoing the whole animation. Feel free to give (constructive) criticism as I can't tell if I like them or not anymore. Sounds will be added when I get the "final" animations done.

Oh btw the magnum model is obviously the released h3b one and the knife model was taken from fpsbanana.

Ready animation is too slow, and the angle of the knife looks weird. Make it angle down a bit more.
Moving animation is too slow, doesn't match with the sound.
Idle animation is rather good; couldn't find anything wrong with it.
Fire animation looks good for the right hand, but the left arm doesn't seem to take any recoil at all.
Reload animation just looks weird. Gun movement isn't very good, and the way the left hand returns to the origin is strange.
Throw grenade could use a lot of work. Make the left hand begin the grenade throw from off camera. Also could use finger movement.
Melee looks kinda slow.

Whyd you start out with something so complex?

Just because you had to start off with something easy, doesn't mean that people can't try tackling challenges first, before figuring out that it's too much for them.

What do you mean? Did you model it in 3ds max? I'm not good at modeling so I can't rreally help you... :/

Judging by previous posts, he is just being an idiot.


Interesting idea, but in my opinion, I feel the animations could have more movement, more recoil, bounce, etc. Keep at it though!

@ C33f , that was quite a mouthful.
About those animations , the knife strike needs to be faster , and the withdrawal slower.
I'd like the knife to be more lifelike , it looks like they're branded or part of his hand right now. Any idle animations?

Shoulder butt sucks, smoothing errors here and there I know, I'll clean it up soon. gonna animate it, tag it, do sounds for it, make a hud, etc. Can't promise textures or UVWs

Got a nice full time job now so the process is gonna be a tad slow

Edited by Marka Haiyana on Jan 21, 2010 at 03:11 AM

i really dont like that grip other wise good start

the hand guard should be thinner.

The intrusions should be extrusion on the hand grip.

I'm planning on getting rid of them, as they're a waste of polys on a place that won't be seen in FP

Yeah, that's probably best. If you wanted you could fake extrusions in the texture anyway.

Gettin' there... trying to animate a reload is pretty tough
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Jan 22, 2010 at 02:37 AM

Pretty nice m00kz...the bolt looks a bit thin though, I'd make it wider.

Btw, update and practically final animations: http://www.xfire.com/video/1f57c0/
As I said in the description, I'll probably make some sounds and release, and just move onto something else to practice more.

Wireframe?

Some smoothing needs fixing like you said, and more edges can be added to the butt of it, I can see that you don't have many which is why you have smoothing errors at the back.

You have attempted to make it look round chamfering the edges (Not actually doing that, but you have made the outcome of what would happen if you had). Try and make it a bit more organic instead of strict boxes.

Overall is it boxy, and the sides are flat, give them more depth in places. On the stock of it you are missing a piece of metal which is places right on the top, don't know what it actually is.

The grip has a pointless extrude which will not really be noticed in-game as it is so small in depth. It also looks like you would cut yourself on it.

I think some verts might need to be welded on the barrel, as there are smoothing errors.

Ammo counter is very blocky.

There is my crit anyway. Looks decent though, just needs some work. And please make some proper rails instead of that block.
Edited by anonymous_2009 on Jan 22, 2010 at 06:26 PM

add rails.

That ready is really, really quite bad. It either looks too slow, or like it's a melee at first.