Pixelation

Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Psiweapon on June 16, 2011, 11:14:06 pm

Title: [C+C]Into the Dungeon++: Orcs and Skeletons [FINISHED-with attack animations!]
Post by: Psiweapon on June 16, 2011, 11:14:06 pm

So here they are.

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k149/Psiweapon/ITD_PSI_SPRITES-1.gif)


Final version:
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k149/Psiweapon/ITD_PSI_SPRITES-4.png)

Well, all of them have attack animations now. It's been a lot of work!

Title: Re: [C+C]Into the Dungeon++: Orcs and Skeletons [FINISHED-with attack animations!]
Post by: Psiweapon on July 19, 2011, 07:36:41 am

Bumping for new version :3

At first I was meh but now I really like these little guys.

Title: Re: [C+C]Into the Dungeon++: Orcs and Skeletons [FINISHED-with attack animations!]
Post by: PypeBros on July 19, 2011, 08:33:46 am

Maybe it already works well when animated, but I'd usually recommend a "finishing attack" frame that differs from the plain idle frame. Here you have "attack charging" pause frame (where the monster do not hurt), and the actual "attack hit" frame where the hitbox will be active. Because of the "motion blur" you've put there, it cannot last for more than 1/30s (at 60Hz, i'd keep it for 1 or 2 retraces, at most) to keep it "flashy". But then, the player needs to be convinced that he got a fair hit, which you do by another non-hurting pause frame -- a visual feedback, in some sense.

(stafos boss in castle 5 of Zelda: Link's awakening shows that well).
(http://139.165.223.2/~martin/scene/stalfos-boss-attack.png)

Title: Re: [C+C]Into the Dungeon++: Orcs and Skeletons [FINISHED-with attack animations!]
Post by: Psiweapon on July 19, 2011, 01:33:00 pm

Thanks a lot for the animation tips, because I know almost nothing about animation, but I can't apply them =/

I didn't decide on making two frame animations, that came from the dev, and game movement is grid-based (and turn based for that matter). The game is a roguelike so that it is actually *animated at all* is quite out-of-genre.

I haven't seen these sprites in-game yet, but I've seen the hero sprite, which shares the same spritesheet layout, and looks believable.