Eternal's troll variations

Post by **Eternal** » July 7th, 2006, 12:19 pm

I updated that animation. (see last page)
Now his hands go around funkily.

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » July 7th, 2006, 1:05 pm

Can anyone animate the attack please? I am curious how it looks in motion BTW good work!

Post by **Eternal** » July 7th, 2006, 2:56 pm

Does it need a swoosh perhaps?

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » July 7th, 2006, 3:27 pm

He's looking good.

Post by **Zhukov** » July 7th, 2006, 3:47 pm

A swoosh wouldn't hurt, but that isn't what is missing. You need to make the movement more convincing. Everything has to move. When someone kicks, it isn't just their leg moving, their whole body is put into the swing. You have only his limbs moving, the chest and head stay completely still. Not good.

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Post by **zookeeper** » July 7th, 2006, 3:50 pm

Zhukov wrote:A swoosh wouldn't hurt, but that isn't what is missing. You need to make the movement more convincing. Everything has to move. When someone kicks, it isn't just their leg moving, their whole body is put into the swing. You have only his limbs moving, the chest and head stay completely still. Not good.

I think in this case it's intended to look silly - not convincing. Making the movement be more realistic could just destroy the silly look.

At least I'm somewhat convinced that this is meant to be silly.

Post by **Zhukov** » July 7th, 2006, 3:55 pm

Ah, I see. Okay then.

Post by **Eternal** » July 7th, 2006, 5:41 pm

Yes, it's meant to be a bit silly.

Although if one would come and say he/she would use that troll in his/her campaign, I would be more than ready to make a badass animation with the troll making an awesome flipkick...

With the limits of my skill ofcourse.

Post by **Jetrel** » July 7th, 2006, 9:41 pm

zookeeper wrote:Making the movement be more realistic could just destroy the silly look.

This is a reasonable suspicion, but given the already extreme deformation of the unit's body, I'm not sure that it's true.

I think the key words, though, are "I'm not sure".

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » July 8th, 2006, 2:31 am

Now now Jetryl, little cavey Troll could eat you, and the High Elves for breakfast.

Flametrooper · Post by **Flametrooper** » July 8th, 2006, 3:12 am

Well I don't know, considering that the high elves from LotR could have taken down that troll any day, although it might have killed them in the process, ie Glorfindel, or Fingolfin. I'm not sure if the Wesnoth high elvesare going to be quite so awesome though - I hope they are.

flava_clown · Post by **flava_clown** » July 8th, 2006, 12:43 pm

Eternal wrote:Yes, it's meant to be a bit silly.

Although if one would come and say he/she would use that troll in his/her campaign, I would be more than ready to make a badass animation with the troll making an awesome flipkick... With the limits of my skill ofcourse.

i don't know if there is really a place in DaD for a troll and i don't know what Ken Oh think about it, but i would love to see the "badass animation with the troll making an awesome flipkick"! so if you make it, i'll put it in! and if this means that i have to make a scenario just for this one then i'll do it!

Post by **Eternal** » July 8th, 2006, 2:05 pm

Allright then. I'll start working on it.

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » July 8th, 2006, 9:48 pm

Yay! Eternal comes for the animations!!!

flava_clown · Post by **flava_clown** » July 10th, 2006, 8:06 am

i had some thoughts about it, i guess the easiest way to include it in DaD is an undead version, but i dunno if some recoloring is enough to make an undead version out of it. if this is too much work at all, then there are some caves in DaD anyway