How to create animation (Zappy's method)

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Alright did I get your attention?
Anyways, that’s animation, stuff that moves. If you’re a skill issue at blocks and properties like me, this type of animation is perfect for you, and I’ll show you how it works!

Simple Animation

The idea is you hide props or other stuff and show a copy right after to make the illusion of movement! Wire repeaters are AMAZING for this due to the fact they can continue wires and can be changed when they activate stuff.

To show how it’s done, we’ll make a fish swim.

Materials

1 wire repeater for each frame

1 copy of your animated object for each frame

Around 25 memory per frame, doesn’t count object

Instructions

1.Place 1 wire repeater for each frame you make (Wire all of them together in a line)
For me, I’ll put 3 wire repeaters

2.Place 1 copy of the object you’re animating for each frame you want
I will place 3 fish, each swimming in a different part of a pond

  1. Wire each wire repeater to show a prop and to hide the previous one
    If it’s the first/last wire repeater, it doesn’t need to do both

You should have something like this


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Advanced Animation

Advanced animation is quite similar to simple animation, but now, we use channels and triggers to show/hide instead. We use it if what we’re animating has over 5 props used.

Now, we’ll make a gim catch our fish.

Materials

1 wire repeater for each frame

1 trigger for each frame

1 copy of your animated object for each frame

Around 55 memory per frame, not counting object

Instructions

1.Place all your object copies and change them however you like for each frame
I’m making a gim sit, then pull out a fish, then celebrate

2.Create the same wire repeater line as in simple animation, DONT wire them to the objects, wire to triggers instead
I’m wiring up 2 wire repeaters together, and wiring a trigger to each of them

3.Give each trigger their own unique channel, “When triggered, transmit on”

4.Give each object the same channel for show (If trigger wired to first repeater has “67” channel, first object also has it)

5.Give each object the next channel for hide (If trigger wired to second repeater has “skibidi” channel, first object also has it)

6.Place all your stuff where you want it, good job!

You should have something like this


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#RIPGertrudeTheGimFish

That’s all you need to know :D, don’t forget to read the notes at the end. Try practing this by adding a spider or something that appears every minute or other simple animations, but for now, thanks for reading!
Notes:

  1. It’s your choice how long each frame is, edit the delay on wire repeaters to change it.

  2. I suggest to not use the wrong method for your animation, simple with channels uses more memory, advanced with wires is laggy.

  3. If you want to, you can create animations up to 10 frames per second.

  4. You can loop the animation by wiring the first repeater to the first.

  5. I can change this guide if you ask in replies.

Thanks cheezesRcool for helping with channels, and show this guide to every penguin you know. :penguin:

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I’ve seen multiple animation guides, but this one explains it well! I like how you go from easy to hard, which can help in learning.

Pretty much the only downside to this is that it’s a dupe.

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yea i can do that, I’ll do it later

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You could use triggers and the multi-channel method (commas between channel names)

Not every guide has to have humor, it depends on length. Its your opinion tho

Agreed

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I’m bored and have nothing to do, so I’m going to rate the guide. Just know this is only my opinion—you don’t have to listen to anything I say.

GRAMMAR: 6/10

It could have been better. You added some commas, periods, and capital letters, but you had a few run-on sentences and missing punctuation, which creates some weird or awkward sentences. You could also have separated the steps more clearly. You could probably work on that for your next guide.

HUMOR: 3/10

I barely saw any jokes, humor, or personality in that guide! This is something most guides need—it prevents the reader from falling asleep. Yes, you did add a little bit of humor, like “Skibidi” and “67,” but other than that, I saw zero humor. You could’ve done better with that.

FORMATTING: 8/10

You started with a decent introduction, and you had the cute little gif to get the reader’s attention. But most importantly, you used dropdowns! This is something a lot of people forget to do. I’m really glad you used good formatting. The only thing I mildly dislike is that you could’ve spaced out the steps more. I also want that big text, its weird, yes. But, I feel like I just enjoy looking at that big bold text, y’know? Other than that, it’s all good!

RELEVANCE: 7/10

There are a bunch of guides out there on animating. You did it a little differently, but maybe explain in your guide how your way of animating is different from other guides. Does it use less memory? Is it more efficient? We’ll never know unless you tell us! So, with that being said, I can’t really say anything about the Relevance of this guide. But, the other guides have no pictures, so that’s extra points.

CONCLUSION: 6/10:

It could be clearer. You gave some helpful tips for animation in the conclusion, which is good, but you worded some things awkwardly. For example: “I suggest to not use the wrong method for some animation…” could have been phrased more clearly.

OVERALL RATING: I’d say around 28/50

(Correct me if I’m wrong.)

Again, this is just my opinion. Don’t attack me for this.

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Oooooo didn’t know you can do that,Good idea!

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Hi, I just linked this guide to one of my guides. Just wanted to let you know.

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That’s totally fine! The whole point of a guide is to inform tons of people

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MY RATING:
Grammer: 7.1 would have gone higher if not for the brainrot (I was kinda divided so there’s the decimal point :neutral_face: )

Appealling-ness: 9 Amazing, because all the other guides have no pics ;-;

Humor: 4 Has brainrot :pensive_face:

Conclusion: 6.7/10
Wait… how did this get here?

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Thank you for the super skibidi rizz sigmatastic rating
is there anything i should change?

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… okay welllll!

Anyway…

I don’t usually do ratings, but I’m doing one because I’m bored.

Grammar: 8.6/10

Mainly because I din’t see any grammar mistakes because you edited that (God job :]), But like Gaming-Phoenix said,

But yea.

Humor: 8.5/10

I agree with Phoenix yet again… BUT you did add a funny ending so I’ll have to give you some credit!

Conclusion: 8/10

Pretty solid-ish (that’s all I have to say)


You all can discard my options because I don’t think y’all care to be honest lolz.


Only rated 3 things because I feel like that is enough lolz.


Don’t eat me please for saying this ;-;

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Nah imma listen to your opinions
These ratings are literally so useful for changing mistakes, keep doing them!

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