mediocre.

By brighams

Okay first off let’s talk angles. Take a look at Naruto doing his thing here:

 Let’s analyse this shall we. Naruto’s legs are pretty much perpendicular to the ground, at least as much as a regular runner would be.

But his back is bent way too much, so it make an angle of about 110 degrees with his legs.

In addition, his arms are thrown back, making them a right angle with his legs. 

All in all some really weird positions and angles.

Now let’s take a look at Sonic.

His legs are much more splayed out than Naruto, but at their most extended, Sonic’s legs reach about to where the blue lines are, making his average leg angle about the red line.

This creates a much better angle with the ground, being about 70 degrees rather than a full 90. 

His back is bent as well, but rather than folding up like Naruto does, he keeps his back approximately in line with the angle of his legs. 

Finally, the arms. They may be perpendicular to the ground like Naruto, but they create a 60 degree angle with his legs.

Overall, much better run, angles make some sense, feels more natural.

Also, their forms are completely different. Take the hands.

Naruto runs with his palms facing up, like absolutely no one does. Like, it requires you to bend your elbows all weird and is really not comfortable.

Sonic, on the other hand, has his palms facing inward. This is much closer to what a character running at high speeds would actually do, just a standard resting position, thrown back due to the extreme speeds. Good hand placement.

Naruto runs with his head bent at a ridiculous angle compared to his back, and is looking straight ahead, maybe even a little bit upwards.

Sonic’s head is actually tilted down somewhat, and is in line with his spine, like a normal person’s would be. And this downward tilt is compensated by his eyes, which are in fact looking straight forward.

Naruto takes tiny little baby steps. He barely even spread his legs apart. His legs must be moving at ridiculous speeds with those strides.

Sonic, however, takes full advantage of the fact that his legs have a full range of motion, with a wide stride that makes it slightly more plausible that he might be able to run at supersonic speeds.

A growing collection of animated Pixel Art Tutorials by Pedro Medeiros (@saint11) of Studio Miniboss (they previously worked on TowerFall and are currently working on Celeste and Skytorn)

All +40 Pixel Art Tutorials can be found on blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart (10 Pixel Art Tutorials are posted below)

upon seeing THIS in the thor: ragnarok trailer

They cheer.

Wait … cheer?

Fenrir slows, confused. He smells no fear, senses no rage. This is … a very strange army.

The first hand—weaponless!—reaches for him; he tenses, ready to tear the offending limb to shreds, and lets out a high little yippy whine when it pats him about the ears.

Immediately the noise is reproduced by some four or five of the nearest humans; he smells excitement; more hands are patting him.

It’s nice.

The humans crowd around him, patting him and scritching him and shuffling around to give others a chance. Voices coo, and make puppy noises, and someone catches just the right spot and he cocks his leg and scratches himself, drawing a multitude of oohs and ahhs and cheers and squees.

At some point, his hunger awakens at the scent of burnt flesh; a human has brought him what he later learns is a hot dog; he swallows it in one bite, to more cheering, and looks around hopefully for more.

It is not long before more is bought: steaks and Big Macs and bacon; it seems like much of the group has brought him a snack of some kind and was hoping for a chance to give it to him.

Is this some psychological warfare, he wonders, designed to undermine his confidence and remind him that he is nothing more than a monster who needs to be chained? 

“Who’s a good boy, huh, huh?” “Who’s my good boy?” “

And then one of them answers the question for him.

“You are!”

‘Me?’ he thinks. But if there was any doubt, she confirms it.

“You are, yes you are.”

YOU THINK IM JOKING?

Do As Infinity - Rakuen / Paradise (楽園)

[Translation]

  誰もが　皆　知ってる Everyone knows 消せやしない　傷を  That wounds don’t heal どれくらい　続くの？ How much longer will they remain? もう　いらないよ We don’t need them anymore