ForestDragon's Franken-Art

[Aldarisvet]

as a continuation in the 'for other developers' series, i present you: a few anims for Elvish Blade Dancer from Oath of Allegiance

It is really pity Kwandilin used this Zerovisus's sprite in his campaign. Not only that elf looks really fat, but look on his weapons! Such two-bladed sword is absolute nonsense, you need much more space for the hands between blades. Of course two-bladed swords is quite exotical weapon never largely used anywhere in the reality, but at least even in the fantasy it is a two-handed weapon. But moreover, he have another sword in another hand! It is so huge challenge to a common sense, that I cannot look at this sprite without a pain! This elf cannot do almost anything without a huge risk of cutting himself, I am not speaking about a fight with such a weaponry.

[ForestDragon]

oh, cactose's head it from the original, i just added detail to the two secondary branches, it's a lvl3 cactus wose (there are lvl1 and 2 already), and about evilknight, expect animations soon

[ForestDragon]

as a continuation in the 'for other developers' series, i present you: a few anims for Elvish Blade Dancer from Oath of Allegiance

It is really pity Kwandilin used this Zerovisus's sprite in his campaign. Not only that elf looks really fat, but look on his weapons! Such two-bladed sword is absolute nonsense, you need much more space for the hands between blades. Of course two-bladed swords is quite exotical weapon never largely used anywhere in the reality, but at least even in the fantasy it is a two-handed weapon. But moreover, he have another sword in another hand! It is so huge challenge to a common sense, that I cannot look at this sprite without a pain! This elf cannot do almost anything without a huge risk of cutting himself, I am not speaking about a fight with such a weaponry.

valid point, but still, he looks good for a lvl4 badass, so i included him

[Deciton_Reven]

as a continuation in the 'for other developers' series, i present you: a few anims for Elvish Blade Dancer from Oath of Allegiance

It is really pity Kwandilin used this Zerovisus's sprite in his campaign. Not only that elf looks really fat, but look on his weapons! Such two-bladed sword is absolute nonsense, you need much more space for the hands between blades. Of course two-bladed swords is quite exotical weapon never largely used anywhere in the reality, but at least even in the fantasy it is a two-handed weapon. But moreover, he have another sword in another hand! It is so huge challenge to a common sense, that I cannot look at this sprite without a pain! This elf cannot do almost anything without a huge risk of cutting himself, I am not speaking about a fight with such a weaponry.

Rule of Cool, also WINR

[ForestDragon]

what does WINR stand for?

[Ravana]

https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Glossary

[ForestDragon]

ok

[ForestDragon]

decided to work on another thing, which has been bugging a LOT of people: the fact that elvish civilian uses same images for both male and female version, and now, REJOICE fellow UMC creators, who use elvish civilian, i am glad to present you, the female elvish civilian:

longer hair, different shaped breast, base off Celtic Minstel's edition

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bow anim by Celtic Minstrel

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civilian+female-bow-2.png (2.35 KiB) Viewed 3576 times

civilian+female-bow-3.png (2.62 KiB) Viewed 3576 times

civilian+female-melee.png (2.93 KiB) Viewed 3499 times

EDIT: replaced base and melee with ones from the comment below (now not visible), a few changes on the clothes to make them match bow and defend anims (i think it look good enough now)

[ForestDragon]

defend anim:

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[ForestDragon]

come on, comment pls

[ForestDragon]

edited male civilian's defense anim. since it looks too similiar to female civilian's:

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EDIT: same for bow frame:

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[ForestDragon]

decide to go into khalifate a bit, you know Oath of Allegiance (Kwandulin's khalifate campaign), and i decided to make a lvl 1 Athvari,called Athvari Apprentice, cuz let's face it, even they don't start off as professionals in their duty, you know:

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athvari-apprentice-melee.png (4.6 KiB) Viewed 3453 times

[skeptical_troll]

The sprite looks very nice! I may be wrong, but I have the impression that the hat is too light compared to the rest, maybe some more shading and a stronger outline would help?

Also, I know it is painful, but when doing animations you'd really try to move the whole body, at least a bit, or in the game it will look like a robot or something, and will clash with the other units. I found the suggestions in this tutorial very useful, in that respect.

[ForestDragon]

thanks, oh and anything about elvish civilian's female version?
by the way, i also made a few anims for Death Lord (lvl4 Death Knight), once again, mostly weapon movement, but still:

death-lord-defend.png (7.85 KiB) Viewed 3445 times

perhaps the best one

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death-lord-melee-2.png (7.56 KiB) Viewed 3445 times

[ForestDragon]

a few more:

just what i used as the base for some anims

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death-lord-crossbow-1.png (8.01 KiB) Viewed 3432 times

death-lord-crossbow-2.png (8.07 KiB) Viewed 3432 times

death-lord-defend-crossbow.png (8.04 KiB) Viewed 3432 times

death-lord-melee-2.png (7.56 KiB) Viewed 3432 times