Corvvs' Art Thread (all stills made, tweaking them.)
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Corvvs' Art Thread (all stills made, tweaking them.)
Well, well, well, it's back. I've been working on an Arendian falcon, (sanctioned by Turin), and are the first three frames:
it's gonna have a constant animation like bats (standing anim?) in which the wings flap
I'm worried that they look a bit flat: should I just shade more? Or use more contrast with my current level of shading?
EDIT: it seems I could make this a sticky. Tempting, but somehow I sense this is a bug. Off to tech support.
it's gonna have a constant animation like bats (standing anim?) in which the wings flap
I'm worried that they look a bit flat: should I just shade more? Or use more contrast with my current level of shading?
EDIT: it seems I could make this a sticky. Tempting, but somehow I sense this is a bug. Off to tech support.
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- Frame 3, wings fully raised.
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- Frame 2, lifting wings up and back a bit.
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- Frame one, nominal base frame.
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Last edited by Corvvs on August 21st, 2008, 7:28 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currnetly Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Here are the monsters: I have to double post because of the 3 post limit. Note: these are on hold, so I will not be modifying them, just putting them back up so others can use them if they want to, though I doubt anyone will.
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- Bear thingy, frankensteined from a sprite I drew a while back. (that's why the file name is manticore)
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- Incomplete tree, need to add bear-thing line and wyvern line.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Hmm, those are really cool. But I think the falcon needs to be bigger, but I'm not sure, though.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
The falcon looks, if anything, to big to me.
p.s. Monsters on hold?!?!
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Thanks people. The falcon is 50px wide. That's a bit big, but the loss of of detail would be great if it was made much smaller- the feathers would be very difficult to draw, or very big. Thus, I am keeping the size unless that makes it impossible to be used. I looked at it next a thief, and it seems fine to me. here's and animated, 7 frame version.
EDIT: mistake in the gif, a duplicated frame. Fixed.
EDIT: mistake in the gif, a duplicated frame. Fixed.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
That's beautiful. My only problem is the shifting of the body. It seems to fall when from the motion of the wings it looks like it should be going up. But your the bird expert, so if I'm wrong ignore it.
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Unfortunately I have to disagree... I don't think it's that beautiful, mainly because it's so jurky, there should be another frame between the frame with him having wings straight out and straight down.
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* The wing movement looks good, though it wouldn't hurt to have one more frame.
* The tail needs to move too. I doubt it stays perfectly in the same position the entire time.
* Like Rex Umbrarum says, it should be up where it is currently down and down where it is currently up. When it flaps its wings down, it pushes the body up, and then the body starts to fall again until it flaps down again. The body doesn't magically go up while he is raising his wings and then for some reason go down while he is flapping them down.
* The tail needs to move too. I doubt it stays perfectly in the same position the entire time.
* Like Rex Umbrarum says, it should be up where it is currently down and down where it is currently up. When it flaps its wings down, it pushes the body up, and then the body starts to fall again until it flaps down again. The body doesn't magically go up while he is raising his wings and then for some reason go down while he is flapping them down.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
1. I think I know which one to add. Coming soonturin wrote:* The wing movement looks good, though it wouldn't hurt to have one more frame.
* The tail needs to move too. I doubt it stays perfectly in the same position the entire time.
* Like Rex Umbrarum says, it should be up where it is currently down and down where it is currently up. When it flaps its wings down, it pushes the body up, and then the body starts to fall again until it flaps down again. The body doesn't magically go up while he is raising his wings and then for some reason go down while he is flapping them down.
2. hmm yes good point I hadn't thought of that (would send you a beer smiley if we had them)
3. The jerkiness is a product of unaligned frames, not of my design. I intend to fix it, as I agree that it does look wrong, and I do know how birds fly ( turin)
@ rex: yeah, see above
@PtG: I can't quite understand, but I think I know what you mean, and I'm already planning to add that as per 1. Seems we think alike.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Ok here's the new anim with all that fixed, hopefully. 8 frames, 100 ms.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
IMHO that looks much smoother and natural, nice work , wings look a little thin to me but I am probably wrong oh, and the wing furthest away seems to move a little funny
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I believe standing anims are supposed to be 150ms long, though having a different length might not be a problem.
Looking good, but the outlines and lines on the wings are a bit hard. Maybe soften them a bit?
Looking good, but the outlines and lines on the wings are a bit hard. Maybe soften them a bit?
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Are you sure? I don't think there's any standard length for any animation - you can set the timings and numbers of frames of all animations manually in WML, after all.
The animation looks good, but longbow's right - the wings do look a little bit paper-thin. This could be solved with a bit more shading, i think - overall, the whole thing feels a little flat.
The animation looks good, but longbow's right - the wings do look a little bit paper-thin. This could be solved with a bit more shading, i think - overall, the whole thing feels a little flat.
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Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Right, I was mistaken. It's just that all static standing animations have a duration of 150 and that movement anims spend 150ms in each hex. The bats' animations however, take far longer.
Re: Corvvs' Art Thread (currently Arendians; Monsters on hold.)
Really? That's a firstthespaceinvader wrote: but longbow's right