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Title: Frauki Animations
Pixel Artist: NaCl  (Level 3 Hatchet Man :: 2830 points)
Posted: 12/26/2008 18:47
Statistics:  7 comments    0 faves    0 avatars

These are a few animations of the main character for my game.

Most animations are self explanatory, but the last one. In the last one, if you run off a ledge with water below it, you will perform a dive, and also if you are swimming and hit the surface of the water fast, you will dive out of the water. So, the last animation is the dive, followed by a roll that happens if you land on solid ground.

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NaCl (Level 3 Hatchet Man) @ 12/27/2008 19:02
Hey Jim16 I appreciate the honesty. I suppose I was kind of lazy with reusing the head.

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Damian (Level 10 Operative) @ 12/27/2008 12:27
two things I don't like that stand out to me if I were to play a game with these animations in them.
Firstly, the choice of colours: you seem to choose cold colours and have no real variance between warm and cool colours. I myself would go for redder colours for the skin tone and change the body suite completely.

Secondly, I don't like the head..AT ALL, it seems distracting and ruins the run animation(anyone?).

I personally don't like the whole thing 2/5,. The design in flawed and needs to be fixed, colours need work and head is yucky! no offence intended. Jim

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blueleds (Level 1 Rookie) @ 12/27/2008 04:37
Nice! The only thing I would suggest is adding a frame or two extra to the top of the jump to smooth it out. Maybe even make her hair look like its falling cuz it looks kinda stiff. One more thing is, I would make her left foot angled downward a little more (right now they're both parallel).

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NaCl (Level 3 Hatchet Man) @ 12/27/2008 03:59
Thanks Adam. I've always been torn on having an anticipation frame or two. It certainly looks better, that is undeniable, but to implement it in a game you have to create a delay between when the player pushes the button and when they actually take off. Even if the frame only plays for 5ms, it is very obnoxious to the player. Perhaps there is a trick to making it work in a game; if so, I'd love to hear it!

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Adam (Level 9 Human) @ 12/27/2008 03:53
Really fun animations, I like them a lot (I love that salto). Though those jump animations lack a first phase (I don't know what they are called in english, maybe expectation).

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NaCl (Level 3 Hatchet Man) @ 12/26/2008 21:46
Hey thanks for the input yrizoud! I think your suggestions are good, I'll implement them and update this soonly.

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yrizoud (Level 6 Aquamarine) @ 12/26/2008 21:00
It works very well together, I can only see two things that stand out negatively:
- The jump, maybe too "static" for the upper body (Not sure, difficult to say without seeing the character's horizontal movement during a running jump) I would picture the character with a torso bent a bit forward.
- Run: re-using the 3/4 head from the idle position is not ideal, because the body is now nearly in side view. With a "side view" head, the changes from standing to running (and back) would look much more dynamic.

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