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Title:	Toxic Sonic: Bloodsplosion!
Pixel Artist:	ManningKrull (Level 9 Executioner :: 14849 points)
Posted:	12/3/2008 5:23:02 AM
Statistics:	7 comments :: 1 favorites :: 0 avatars
Here's a mockup of the death animation from the Toxic Sonic game. I made three separate sprites -- the blood explosion, the two bones popping out, and the skull popping out and shattering -- and then the programmer arranged them on the zombies so that the the blood explosion always plays (sometimes in two or three positions on the same zombie) and there's a 1/3 chance the bones will pop out and a 1/3 chance the skull will pop out, so you always see different configurations of these three sprites for each zombie you kill. There's a 1 in 9 chance you'll get all three at the same time and it actually kind of feels like a little bonus, like getting the flaming fist on Ken's uppercut in whatever version of Street Fighter they introduced that (I think there was a 1 in 4 chance of that happening in that first version, and they made it his normal attack in later versions). This was fun to animate! It looks a little better in the actual game because it plays much faster, and the zombie can fade to 50% opacity when he blinks in and out; for PixelJoint I just set him up to blink darker for a few frames and it's not as cool an effect. Anyway, I'm finally almost done with this project!

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Yaoumei (Level 1 Rookie) at 12/23/2008 2:17:15 PM

Oh cool. XD And sick, and awesome. Love it.

ManningKrull (Level 9 Executioner) at 12/4/2008 8:35:51 AM

Thanks everybody! I can't wait to show everyone the game! I think it's a step up from Curses, and I look forward to hearing what everybody thinks.

Victor Rojo (Level 5 Detective) at 12/3/2008 1:35:33 PM

i love this blood, great great!

Chace (Level 5 Captain) at 12/3/2008 11:48:24 AM

Great animation, can't wait for the game!
Curses! was great, so my expectations for this game are set high!

Darth Mandarb (Level 8 Brigadier General) at 12/3/2008 7:48:55 AM

M y a n t i c i p a t i o n g r o w s !

More good stuff!! Keep 'em coming!

Arrow-1 (Level 1 Private) at 12/3/2008 6:44:03 AM

I'm really excited to see this all be put together, it seems like it's going to be amazing. You're a great pixel artist. ;)

Ky3bMu4 (Level 7 Assassin) at 12/3/2008 5:42:21 AM

Great series =)

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