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Adamant14 wrote: Once there was a guy named pixelmind who spend really a lot of time to create a full animated dragon sprite.
But nobody here wanted his work, and now he is gone forever.

Well he hasn't fully disappeared but is very busy and has yet to find more time for pixel pushing

The only particular critique I can come up with is that the tail's perspective seems a bit off, possibly because it hits the ground on its side. I could be looking at it wrong, though. I see what you mean, I'll try to fix that. Are you planning to review also the other animation frames? Yeah I do. ...

let's do some gravedigging ( again ) ;) Wow those sprites are really starting to show some age. Recently I stubled upon my old dragon and yet again I had to give it a quick makeover. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/Ludwig_der_Squig/pixelart/dragon_baseframe_20111219.png Also I realised that I...

That's one big bad dragon. Looks really great. Much much better than my version. I'm still lurking in the dark waiting for the day to return ;). Work is busy as always and I'm currently working on my own animated short movie and game as well but I'll definitely sit down and try animate this wonderfu...

Hi there Hadn't posted in a while because I didn't had anything new to show you. Right now I'm working on my own project so I have little time to work on the dragon. But it bugs me that I never finished it. I'm not very happy with the current design so I did a quick reshading: ( now with more spikes...

Quite a coincidence, I also practice drawing proper walks cycles right now


Not at pixel-art scale though

Looks good

thespaceinvader wrote:EDIT: for future reference, would you mind using -s rather than _s to separate words in your file names? That's the standard we have =)

sorry about that.. I messed it up.

Maybe we can use the last 3 or 4 frames of the melee attack also as movement-animation

The ranged attack should work for most directions but the melee attack might look strange. I have not tried the animations in-game yet but if they aren't that bad I would prefer not to redraw every frame. The best thing to do would be to make directional animations ...... i'm too lazy to do so at th...

A quick animation test for the ranged attack:


Not shure if this fits.... It looks kinda strange.
I doubt that a real spider could bend that way

here is a slightly more exaggerated version

I wanted to animate something without wings so I gave the melee attack for the cave spider a try.



Hope you don't mind the thread necromancing.

Has anyone worked on the ranged attack yet ?

Oops, missed that spot. Thanks for pointing this out.
Updated the image above.

Not sure if we should actually see the underside because the jaw is tilt downwards. Maybe it was the odd shape of the jaw that gave that impression ( Or I'm totally wrong and my eyes still playing tricks on me :) ) I think this is the final version for now ( so I can continue working on the sprite :...

Thanks for the paintover, I knew there was something wrong
Does this look better ?