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I would say it is too dry. I have just whipped up an animation of my own to show how I might do it. I used the same small number of transformation frames (i.e. one frame with the body and legs replaced, then add the head in the next frame), but I made it so the transformation takes places within a quick and large leap in the animation. This helps to mask that the transformation is not gradual.
Is the transforming in this test too dry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=111HBEqxOjw
sillypenta is taking it in the right direction. To go even further, you could have body parts transform in sequence to create some anticipation for the big transformation. So for example, you could have the arm shake and then pop a new hand on, shake the other arm and then that transforms, then build it up until there is one big reveal.
When you have the minifig standing still then transform all at once, the audience is not prepared for the story beat. This could cause confusion, or it could leave the audience disinterested in that story moment. Sillypenta improved upon this by adding some shaking to anticipate the transformation, allowing the audience to develop more intrigue in the upcoming action. My suggestion above takes it further and makes the anticipation even more dramatic. Key word: anticipation!
These are just guidelines, and depending on the overall style of your video you might adopt different animation philosophies.
I have done this a lot while filming the transformation scenes in my App Man series! As an example, watch Episode 2 at 5:42!
How's this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86XkS6QC13M
It is a little tacky. Sorry about that.
Definitely a lot better. I like how the shaking gets faster throughout just before his head transforms. I'm not sure how it would be done, and it may not be what you want to do (in which case someone may like to give it a try) but I think it would be really cool if somebody did a transformation where when the arms change, the original arms pop out onto the floor (perhaps with some blood to make it more gory) and then the new arms grow out from the arm socket, and then a similar process could be repeated for the other body parts. One more thing; I noticed that the light in the video was very blue. I don't know if you meant for that to happen, or if you just didn't use the lights you normally use, but if it is neither of these then I wold suggest that you find a way to get rid of it, perhaps as mentioned earlier by using some good lights. I know it was just a test animation, but I wanted to make sure that you aware of this potential issue 
Also, transformation sounds like it could be a theme for the animation challenge 
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I'll see what I can do to fix the lighting problem. Thanks for noticing it!
i was thinking about maybe changing my name. what do you think? I have had a youtube channel for almost 1 year. will it be a problem to change my name after a whole year being STOPandMOTION? also, is this the right place to put this? 
That was pretty funny Weasel, it looks a little staged because he just lifts up his arms, but I think that makes it funnier. StopandMotion: I don't think it would be a huge problem, but if you just change your youtube name people are still going to have to search for your old name. And your probably going to have to gain back some viewers who don't recognize your name. Also I don't think your name sounds bad at all. But thats your call, I have thought of changing my name also because I think its not that cool.
Thanks. osomstudios. your name is not bad too
This song always gets stuck in my head when i visit this form.
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I remember back in 2010 club penguin was all the rage and everybody had it and everybody had bought at least one fluffy puffle 
was thinking about maybe changing my name. what do you think? I have had a youtube channel for almost 1 year. will it be a problem to change my name after a whole year being STOPandMOTION? also, is this the right place to put this?
I have also been thinking of changing my name, mainly due to the fact that it includes the word 'Lego' in it, which I feel could potentially cause problems down the line. I'm intrigued to know what you would change your name to, but honestly, there's nothing about your current name that I don't like, but feel free to change your name. If you do change your name on youtube then I would suggest perhaps making a video notifying people about the name change, in order to get rid of any confusion that may occur. If you do decide to change your name, then it would be better to do it sooner rather than later while you do not have as big of an audience as you may do later on.
I hope this helps
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Is Club Penguin shutting down its online interactivity?
I've had a most delightful Sunday.
How has your weekend been?
Mine's been both tiring and pretty cool! Had to help demolish a house my fam's working on, you'd think that smacking plaster with a crowbar wouldn't get boring after a while, but it dooo.
But then I wen't and DP'd on a film shoot last night, went pretty good, got some dope shots! Should be out in a few weeks, though not on my YouTube channel. Still, exciting stuff!
My mum got Mass Effect Andromeda (For herself, being a big BioWare fan and avid Dragon Age player) and, as a result, I also get to play it. So that's been pretty nice weekend development. It's still downloading though. Modern video games can take ages to get onto my computer. But even so, through the wonders of technology I could still play the first mission of the game even though It'd not completely finished downloading.
(How does that work?)
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I walked around stores on Saturday. woooo hoooooo 
Does anyone know of any good places to learn musical instruments? I have a guitar and piano but am not a prodigy and must learn how to actually do these things instead of just doing them without effort but my brain is old and doesn't want to learn but also wants to make cool musics helps mes plz 
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