RaeKage [2014-09-12 14:34:16 +0000 UTC]

Apologies if I keep commenting on you with such long comments. I don't wanna seem like I'm trying to kick your teeth in or anything, but I'm not used to sugarcoating my CnC. So you'll have to bear with me. I really do wanna see you improve. Your work's good but it could be a lot better. I honestly found my way back into sprite animation and I have a lot to improve on myself but I still got a few tricks or two I'm willing to share with other people to help them get better faster too.

Anyway, I just wanna leave you a lot more tips on the whole so you can refer to it in the future. So again, apologies if this ends up being really really long. XD

First off, you need to change your Stage Dimensions. Bruh, like for real, 550X400 isn't nice to look at. It's like a box and it looks awkward. Not to mention it doesn't give you much options to play around with the scenery because everything is boxed in things just look less appealing. Plus, the human eye is more naturally drawn to things being wider than boxier, so it'll give a boost in aesthetic as well as giving you more to look at. I'd recommend for future animations that you change your Stage Dimensions to either 720 X 400 or 640 X 360. These are usually the standard for most Flash Sprite animations. Oh and this is a no brainer, but just in case you forget, when you use the V-Cam, always keep it the same dimensions/proportion to the stage. So when you change the V-Cam's size everything will stay in the right place in accordance to the stage. 

Secondly, this you don't have to do but it the end result it could end up giving your animation some more UNF. You should look into playing around with the concept of Skewing. Defining Skewing is a bit hard for me to explain, but when you use the Free-Transform tool and you put your mouse over one of the edges of the box, sometimes the arrow changes to a couple of parallel lines. What this lets you do is mess with the pixels of the sprite itself, and have them look like they sway to the side or up or down. Skewing is a hard thing to teach or get right because it's something sprite animators use very sparringly. But if you do use it right, it adds weight to every action and more life to the sprites to keep them from being too stiff. Too much skewing could end up breaking the character however and make the animation look really hyper exaggerated. My personal rule of thumb is always to skew a character when he is being hit. And the skew only needs to last for one or two frame. We want to give the appearance that the blow was hard enough to shake the entire body, but we don't want our eyes to catch the actual figure being distorted. 

Sorry if that was hard for ya to wrap your head around. The best way to explain it is just to try it out for yourself. Skew your characters towards the direction they are being hit for a few frames and then snap them back to their normal proportions. Your eyes won't catch them be distorted, but you'll see that looks different enough to give weight to the attacks landing on the character.

Lastly, and I promise this is the last thing I'll bring up for now, and this is a minor thing anyway, you'll notice that some of the effects you use have this weird black blob inside them or around the effect. You're supposed to turn those effects into movie clips and blend them using the properties panel as an overlay (or multiply, I can't remember cause it's been so long since I've used one of those). I noticed that you used one of those effects in your latest animation, that purple blast that Vegeta used to blast Goku. Try blending it and toying with that effect til it looks good. 

I hope these tips help ya man. Keep animating and don't die out on us again mang.

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Light-Spriter [2013-05-24 05:08:43 +0000 UTC]

Dammit Shen come back to us.

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IStoleThePies2 [2013-03-09 18:55:16 +0000 UTC]

Are you alive?

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muscleman2008 [2012-05-21 19:07:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fave bro

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ShenDytan [2012-04-30 22:14:34 +0000 UTC]

what the hell happened to my ichigo vs naruto remake flash >

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shadowmjl [2012-04-05 21:30:10 +0000 UTC]

Hey. Just to let you know this guy uploaded your Flash onto Youtube.

[link]

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OnagaKoopa [2012-03-11 22:54:02 +0000 UTC]

Nevermind anyways can i talk to you in notes?

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64tre2 [2012-02-21 00:56:06 +0000 UTC]

can i make a request?

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Souleaterf [2012-01-14 21:49:11 +0000 UTC]

Good sir do you want the sage outfit, just the sage eyes, or something I haven't covered here? lol

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SomeCallMeWes [2011-09-20 13:34:24 +0000 UTC]

From your JUS intro?

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SomeCallMeWes [2011-09-20 13:34:03 +0000 UTC]

where did you get the curse mark lvl 2 sasuke?

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kevinspacewolof [2011-07-30 04:29:16 +0000 UTC]

this
is
not
a
joke!
carry
on
reading!
or
you
will
die,
even
if
you
only
looked
at
the
word
warning!


ONCE
THERE
WAS
A
LITTLE
GIRL
CALLED
CLARISSA,
SHE
WAS
10
YEARS
OLD
AND
SHE
LIVED
IN
A
MENTAL
HOSPITAL,
BEACUSE
SHE
KILLED
HER
MUM
AND
DAD.








SHE
GOT
SO
BAD
SHE
STARTED
TO
KILL
ALL
THE
STAFF
IN
THE
HOSPITAL
SO
THE
GOVERMENT
DECIDED
THAT
THE
BEST
IDEA
WAS
TO
GET
RID
OF
HER
SO
THEY
SET
UP
A
SPECIAL
ROOM
TO
KILL
HER,
AS
HUMANE
AS
POSSIBLE
BUT
IT
WENT
RONG
THE
MACHINE
THEY
WERE
USEING
WENT
WRONG.








AND
SHE
WAS
SAT
THERE
IN
AGONY
FOR
HOURS
UNTILL
SHE
FINALLY
DIED.








NOW
EVERY
WEEK
ON
THE
DAY
OF
HER
DEATH
SHE
RETURNS
TO THE
PERSON
THAT
READS
THIS
LETTER,
ON
A
MONDAY
NIGHT
AT
12:00
SHE
KREEPS
INTO
YOUR
ROOM
AND
KILLS
YOU,
BUT
SLOWLY
AND
PAINFULLY
SLOWLY
CUTTING
DIFFRENT
PARTS
OF
UR
BODY
THEN
WATCHES
YOU
BLEED
TO
DEATH
IF
YOU
DONT
SEND
THIS
TO
20
PEOPLE
BY
MIDNIGHT
SHELL
BE
COMEING
TO KILL
YOU!
SEND
IT
SO
SHE
HAS
ANOTHER
LOAD
OF
PEOPLE
TO
GET
AND
FORGETS
ABOUT
YOU
DONT
BELVE ME
HEY?

EXAMPLE
1:
JENNY
DIDNT BELIVE THIS AND DELETED IT WITHOUT EVEN READING THE WHOLE THING! A FEW DAYS LATER ON THE MONDAY NIGHT SHE WAS WOKEN UP BYE LOUDE FOOTSTEPS AND HEAVY BREETHING THERE WAS CLARISSA STANDING THERE WITH A HUGE KNIFE AND WELL JENNY IS HISTORY NOW.









EXAMPLE
2:
TOM
ONLY SENT IT TO 5 PEOPLE CUZ HE THOUGHT HED BE SAFE AND IT WAS PROBLY JUST A JOKE BUT OH HOW RONG WAS HE! HE DIED THE NEXT NIGHT ON MONDAY AND ILL TELL YA NOW IT WASNT PRETTY(JUST CUZ HE SENT FIVE HE DIDNT COMPLETE THE TASK)

EXAMPLE
3:
JOEANNA
SENT IT TO 19 PEOPLE SHE THOUGHT IT WAS CLOSE ENOUGH AND WOULD DO BUT SHE WAS WRONG SHE DIED THAT NIGHT ON A MONDAY AND ONCE AGAIN IT WASNT

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Risky2k [2011-07-10 17:21:08 +0000 UTC]

Your online?

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kevinspacewolof [2011-07-07 03:32:29 +0000 UTC]

hes either in jail or dead hes been gone for song i feel sad
deviantART muro drawing

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azanmalik [2010-07-10 03:32:45 +0000 UTC]

I gave you a llama badge. Please give me one in return.

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Goketenks [2010-07-02 17:16:11 +0000 UTC]

A lucky star dropped on earth one night, and it asked me,"What do you want? A million dollars, or a true friend?" I chose a million dollars.....because I already got you.*Send this to 20 of your truest friends of DA; if you get this back you're a true friend!

00000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000_0000000000000
00000000000000___000000000000
0000000000000_____00000000000
000000000000_______0000000000
00000000000_________000000000
0____________________________
000_______*TRUE FRIEND*___ _0
000000 __________________ 0000
0000000_________________00000
000000_________0_________0000
00000_______0000000_______000
0000_____0000000000000_____00
000___0000000000000000000___0

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muscleman2008 [2010-06-08 02:55:15 +0000 UTC]

Hay bro wassup!

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Shotomanexe [2010-03-27 21:14:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fave.

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Shotomanexe [2010-03-26 03:27:26 +0000 UTC]

Excuse me, but may I use the Jump Ultimate Stars style sprite sheet of your character Shen? I'm making a sprite comic and I would like for him, Muscleman and Daichi to important characters later in the series.

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I-2 [2010-01-11 20:38:07 +0000 UTC]

Hey dante! What's up? how's it going?

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KayPikeFashion [2010-01-05 06:01:20 +0000 UTC]

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Daichi-Sama [2009-12-26 02:31:28 +0000 UTC]

hey, shen. I dunno if you saw, but i've been getting a bit into flash lately. i noticed that one of the things that makes your animations look so well done is the effects you use on hits. if you don't mind me asking, are they custom or are they game-ripped?

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I-2 [2009-08-30 03:24:45 +0000 UTC]

YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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muscleman2008 [2009-04-18 12:27:58 +0000 UTC]

YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED!!

Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)

RULES:
1- You can hug the person who hugged you!
2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away!

Send This To All Your Friends, And Me If I Am 1.
If You Get 7 Back You Are Loved!

1-3 you're a bad friend
4-6 you're an ok friend
7-9 you're a good friend
10-& Up you're a great friend

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SSOutPhase [2009-03-20 21:00:57 +0000 UTC]

Hidden by Owner

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Ace0fredspades [2009-03-09 10:27:56 +0000 UTC]

Hi! Thank you so much 4 favourites and watch! I hope my future works won't disappotint you, and I'll see you, your comments, and maybe even faves in my gallery again! ^____^

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FanGameRevolver [2009-03-02 03:02:03 +0000 UTC]

Um wow...! you want to help make a video game starring Ashura? I am in need of an animator for my cutscenes. I had screenshots of the game up but I decided to take them down, however I still have the Game's Demo up on YoYoGames (as long as the site doesn't crash again)
The game's story involves Ashura, Wechnia, and Honey traveling to sonic's dimension to take back their dimension's master emerald from eggman. From there do whatever you like. Want full info? Demos? Etc? give me a ring.

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demonprincelaharl [2009-01-24 01:36:17 +0000 UTC]

hey again......Yo i'm gona let you in on a deal, im gonna let you be in my sprite comics if you want, however, you have to send them via my email, the choice is all up to you

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demonprincelaharl [2009-01-23 01:53:35 +0000 UTC]

Howdy, decided to see your stuff, not bad...by the way i'm Zach Light, glad to meet yah

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