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Animation Tutorial

It can take a lot of time to move a character idea from base frame to full animation. This rough guide is a compilation of quick and easy tricks to help bring the animator's creations to life.

Learn how to take a standing base frame:

To full animation:

For this tutorial, you will need:

A base frame of the unit -> (http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Creating_a_scratch_built_sprite)

A graphics editing program -> http://www.gimp.org/

Lets get started

When I begin to animate a character, I first divide the subject's moving parts into easy to distinguish colors. Here, I have modified Zerovirus's base frame of the Ghast into a mess of colors based on the monster's different limbs.

Credits

Zerovirus for Ghast baseframe.

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-'''Animation Tutorial: Blocking'''
+'''Animation Tutorial'''
+It can take a lot of time to move a character idea from base frame to full animation. This rough guide is a compilation of quick and easy tricks to help bring the animator's creations to life.
 Learn how to take a standing base frame: http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1500/ghast.png
 To full animation:                      http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2486/ghastattack7.gif
-Through "animation blocking."
 '''For this tutorial, you will need:'''
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 '''Lets get started'''
-The first step of blocking is to divide the moving parts of your character's base frame into easy to distinguish colors. For example, I recolored the Ghast's arms, legs, heads etc.
+When I begin to animate a character, I first divide the subject's moving parts into easy to distinguish colors. Here, I have modified Zerovirus's base frame of the Ghast into a mess of colors based on the monster's different limbs.
   http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1500/ghast.png http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4742/ghast1.png
 '''Credits'''
 Zerovirus for Ghast baseframe.