# I need help making animations
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-need-help-making-animations/18315
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-need-help-making-animations/18315 "2023-03-06T19:42:32Z")
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### Author:  [@im\_confuzzled](https://forum.makecode.com/u/im_confuzzled)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-need-help-making-animations/18315/1 "2023-03-06T19:42:33Z")
I’m working on making a platformer by the name of hoplings, and I need help bringing it to life. I’m using an extension that helps a lot, but I’m encountering the same issue as most others, being that my character jitters between idle and falling once my character lands. is there any way to prevent this? thank you!
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-need-help-making-animations/18315/2 "2023-03-06T19:44:07Z")
@im_confuzzled check out my comment here:
> [@My Mario is teleporting](https://forum.makecode.com/t/my-mario-is-teleporting/16397/3):
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> @Milo I think your animations are the culprit: Because you have animations that change size each frame, you might want to try creating a hidden “body sprite” that you use for all of your physics and a second “display sprite” that just animates. Here’s some example code demonstrating what I mean: The sprite on the left is actually two sprites; one is running an animation that changes size each frame and the other doesn’t animate at all. We do all of the physics/controls/overlaps etc. on the …
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### Author:  [@im\_confuzzled](https://forum.makecode.com/u/im_confuzzled)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-need-help-making-animations/18315/3 "2023-03-07T16:59:16Z")
i think i get it, but how exactly do i make that work? can you elaborate further?