Class 77

Today I felt incredibly sick so I thought it would be best to just stay home!
However you cant just miss a day and a blog post. So I decided to get more familiar with Pivot.
The reason I want to get more familiar with Pivot is in my last blog post.

""Currently I have been animating the frames as I go, basically just winging it. But I want to change that, so next time I do an animation, I will start by creating it in something like Pivot. This will give me a nice reference to what it will look like without taking up a lot of my time. The reason I want to give this a try is because it takes me forever to create these animations, but because i'm just making it as I go I have no idea what it will look like in the end. So if I do it in Pivot I will have a rough idea of what it will look like, plus I can see how many frames I will need!
This should hopefully make my animating way easier!""

  So in order to do this I need to be able to use Pivot, which I have used in the past out of boredom and InfoTech Assignments. These assignments where a very, very long time ago. So today will be my refresher course! But using this to plan my animations will hopefully increase the quality of my animations. Either way it will definitely help me!  

So far I have started on a simple walking animation. Currently it is 9 frames long, which is significantly smaller then I expected. It is running at 30fps (Thirty Frames Per Second) and is looking somewhat smooth.

However the animation is a little stiff on the top, So I think I will go back into the frames and change that. Going back and changing frames is an extremely tedious task, so a little bit of advise would be make sure you animate everything in the frame before you proceed!
Now there is some basic movement on all the parts of the figure. Obviously this animation isn't the greatest, but I didn't want to spend a long time making a walking animation that would serve me no purpose other then helping me re-learn the basic controls and functions of Pivot.

Tomorrow I will ask Justin what he wants me to do, then decide if what he told me was actually worth my time and effort. Then if it is, I will do that. But personally I would like to finish up the Zombie animations. E.x (Walking) (Running) (Attacking) (Idle) - Anything that makes the game look more like a game.