Animating/drawing Arms -first timer

[DameNingen]

Hello everyone,

I am now in the middle of Animating for the first time (human motion at that)
and i really hate how it looks, some things are WAY off but i cannot figure out what exactly.

you see in the picture what I mean.
in the "worst" for example i think this "border line" of the underarm gets in the way maybe?
but if i delete it, it becomes unclear what this blue mass even is.
maybe the form of the arm is just off?

should i just draw more different arms? as you can see its just 2 different versions for underarms.
for movement, moving the underarm in an upwards position another arm might have to be drawn?
might be the best solution right?

basicly - how to draw + animate arms that dont look like crap ? :/

(oh and just ignore the hands for now please...)

thank you very much for reading and bashing and stuff :D

[Max-Vador]

hey buddy, i'm not gonna get totally into it in a post but i can tell you that what you're lookinf for is "foreshortening"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvcGW_U3nFs

[DameNingen]

At 1/14/13 05:11 PM, Max-Vador wrote: hey buddy, i'm not gonna get totally into it in a post but i can tell you that what you're lookinf for is "foreshortening"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvcGW_U3nFs

hmm, foreshortening I didnt think of it that way.
bight be a good idea actually but in this scene,
with the body of the dude in this angle. shure i can make use of foreshortening?
his body is nearly frontal up the camera and the camera itself is also not angled but directly in front of him.

so when i - for example - foreshorten HIS left arm (from our view the right arm)
i have to make it "smaller" since its farther away, but since his body is nearly frontal etc. it will really
just looks like his arm is way too thin (especially since his body is kinda big)

[Max-Vador]

no you're missing what foreshortening is. it's whenan arm/leg/etc is coming towards the camera/focal point, so its shortened in perspective.

another thing is that you aren't moving the upper arm, so the forearm is moving unnaturally to positions that the entire arm would move to