New animations

Rev. V! · Post by **Rev. V!** » February 13th, 2007, 2:18 pm

Yeah, I was going for a "wind up" kind of motion, where you see the tension build (sword gets positioned, knee lifts) then WHAM, he throws the flat snap.
I intentionally toned down the amount of motion in that frame as a subtle "build up" experiment.
Yup, it IS very close to the standing frame.

Maybe that frame might work at twice the frame speed as the rest of the animation as an "intro" to the rest of the frames?

or-

I can play with the sheild and sword position on that first frame a bit if you'd like, that might do the trick....
Or we can just scrap that frame altogether, just lemme know what you think will work best, I'm not attached to it, so......

Is the female mage death animation up to par, or does she need more work?

Woohoo, I'm a contributer!

Rev. V!

Post by **zookeeper** » April 9th, 2007, 5:42 pm

Did a melee animation and a defense frame for the new dark queen. Committed it already, but I figured I'd show off here as well.

Also, a victory animation for Delfador!

Post by **Boucman** » April 10th, 2007, 10:29 pm

victory animations have been implemented some time ago...

just thought it was worth mentionning

unit12 · Post by **unit12** » April 18th, 2007, 9:33 pm

removed

JW · Post by JW » April 19th, 2007, 5:04 am

In heavyinfantry-1moreattack.gif you must have used some sort of layers that worked incorrectly, because the unit's mace is still visible aside his body as its duplicate is swinging.

Post by **Eternal** » April 19th, 2007, 12:14 pm

zookeeper wrote:Also, a victory animation for Delfador!

I wish I could use that as my avatar.

Post by **vonHalenbach** » April 22nd, 2007, 5:33 pm

The right foot of heavyinfantry-1moreattack.gif gets longer and another texture. The shadow should have a blurry edge. I like the action of this animation. Quite some movement.

The deathanimation looks very unnatural. It would be the best, to start again. This is mostly a rotation of the unit, with one leg almost the same when the other leg gets sliding on the ground. His arm must be growing, when he is falling down, because the mace comes forward, when his body is falling backwards.

unit12 · Post by **unit12** » April 24th, 2007, 2:58 am

vonHalenbach wrote:The right foot of heavyinfantry-1moreattack.gif gets longer and another texture. The shadow should have a blurry edge. I like the action of this animation. Quite some movement.

The deathanimation looks very unnatural. It would be the best, to start again. This is mostly a rotation of the unit, with one leg almost the same when the other leg gets sliding on the ground. His arm must be growing, when he is falling down, because the mace comes forward, when his body is falling backwards.

I agree, my death animation isn't good enough.

I'm not sure what happened to the last frame in the attack animation. But, that is the frame that is in the game right now. I probly just messed it up some how.

If I get some extra time I will take another stab (no pun) at the death animation.

BreadMan · Post by **BreadMan** » May 6th, 2007, 1:19 am

Threw this together today...they die a lot so I figured it'd be a good one to have...

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » May 6th, 2007, 1:41 am

That looks great. I love the little bounce of the pitchfork

Post by **Boucman** » May 6th, 2007, 2:52 pm

it needs some (purely technicall) tweaking, like shadows and removing the sort white halo under the feet, but overall, it's great...

Post by **Zhukov** » May 6th, 2007, 3:50 pm

A couple of middle-frames would do wonders.

Post by **Sgt. Groovy** » May 25th, 2007, 8:22 pm

Not a unit animation, strictly speaking, but I got an inspiration for an animated entangle projectile. It's made in vector graphics, and animated by applying a straight base vine to different paths, so changing it will be very easy (it took about half an hour to make it from scratch).

Post by **zookeeper** » May 25th, 2007, 9:34 pm

Sgt. Groovy wrote:Not a unit animation, strictly speaking, but I got an inspiration for an animated entangle projectile. It's made in vector graphics, and animated by applying a straight base vine to different paths, so changing it will be very easy (it took about half an hour to make it from scratch).

We don't use a projectile anymore for entangle, as it doesn't make any sense conceptually. However, if you could make an animation for roots sprouting up from the ground to grab the unit above, that would be very nice.

Post by **Jetrel** » May 25th, 2007, 9:59 pm

zookeeper wrote:
Sgt. Groovy wrote:Not a unit animation, strictly speaking, but I got an inspiration for an animated entangle projectile. It's made in vector graphics, and animated by applying a straight base vine to different paths, so changing it will be very easy (it took about half an hour to make it from scratch).
We don't use a projectile anymore for entangle, as it doesn't make any sense conceptually. However, if you could make an animation for roots sprouting up from the ground to grab the unit above, that would be very nice.

Seconded - repeat the process, except with them bursting out of the ground.