Other Art How to make a shoulder dance

[ajidot]

Ello!
On this thread, I'm going to help you make your own shoulder dance avatars!
something like these :

There are 12 frames for the whole animation.
which is ... 3 for middle->left, 3 for left->middle, 3 for middle->right, 3 for right->middle

...and the exciting part is that you can make this by drawing only 3 drawings! yay~


okay. draw a picture for each of these poses.
then reuse it for the right part with an inverted version of the drawing! so, it goes like this :


If you cook up these 12 pictures into a gif, bam! You have yourself a shoulder dancer.
Good luck~~

 

[theclownfish II]

i, personally, am not going to make a shoulder dance gif but this does seem like a pretty helpful tutorial

 

[Akrasia]

Are the frames for each direction identical? As in, are all 3 frames for the left the same?

 

[ajidot]

Are the frames for each direction identical? As in, are all 3 frames for the left the same?

yes, they are all the same~ in this order : 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1

 

[CraftedNightmare Here!]

Awesome! Instead of begging you to make me one because I'm too lazy, I can get off my butt and make one myself!

 

[zeskorion]

tsukis is kinda trippo

 

[ajidot]

tsukis is kinda trippo

'q' ....?

 

[zeskorion]

'q' ....?

the background. it is all swirly and transparent and


it dont move with the thing

 

[ajidot]

the background. it is all swirly and transparent and


it dont move with the thing

Must be on your end. It doesn't for me 'q'
Also, there is no Tsuki's there

 

[zeskorion]

i dunno
the one with white hair. it looks tsuki idk

 

[Plaguerion]

May i request the name of this be changed into "Necktwister dance" instead of "Shoulder dance"?

 

[darthmorf]

Hah. More shall join us!

 

[MiltVala]

i dunno
the one with white hair. it looks tsuki idk

That's Freenight <.<

 

[zeskorion]

That's Freenight <.<

I AM NOT A PEIOPLE PERSON! I DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE FROM A FREE NIGHT AND A TWOKEY

 

[Skeltinon]

Yup that's pretty nice tutorial, but I promised that I will keep my avatar till 1.3 release so loyalty for the win

 

[Bucket]

*copies the pose examples and uses them for an avatar*

Looks like a good guide. I'm not one for avatar trends, however. :c

 

[A_judgementalLizard]

Great! now I can make my oc into one of these.

 

[ajidot]

Great! now I can make my oc into one of these.

DO ET!!!

 

[A_judgementalLizard]

DO ET!!!

I will tomorrow

 

[Nageru]

wait a sec...only three different sprites? >_>
I thought I had to make all the 12 seperate, or at least 6...

Might think again making this.