E-Man's Sprite R & D

[Kelvin]

in practicality you'd have frames ranging from crunched to stretched and the animation would simply follow a pattern through them, that in mind I'd say its an okay animation.
you could ease it a bit more at the end or you could have the spring be a bit more resistant, which I think would be your best bet, it'd save you a tone of frames and not look as silly.

he said not to make it wobble too much. They don't wobble in mario games because the principle of a spring is that the more 'rigid' it is, the quicker it returns to the original position, and thus the force generated by the elastic potential is greater, making Mario jump farther and higher. If the spring wobbles too much like a slinky then it means it doesn't have a bigger capacity of returning to its original state and thus its elastic potential is smaller, which translates to weak force.

Yay, physics lesson! No joke, I found that useful.

Also, for the star, it looks like the light is coming from the left, if I'm correct, so shouldn't most of the backside on the fourth frame be shaded?



Just a quick rough edit, but yeah, you get the idea. The lower row is the edited, the upper is the original. Maybe not that much shadow, but yeah, you can't tell if the light is moving or what in the original.