Lectro Mockup Madness! (New demo! July 22nd)

[Camdog]

Oh boy, boss attacks! He could spawn tiny helicopter robots out of his head hole, or shoot homing fireballs. I'm sure you wanted to make him bounce around, based on his design. Maybe you could make his head extend combined with a simple biting animation.

And there's always gun and laser turrets that happen to be lying around...not like giant robots don't need their own security system.

Maybe Lectro can hop into his head to initiate a hacking mini game so you can shut him down.

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I hate that there are no layers, but I've tried Graphics Gale and I didn't like how it felt.

Force yourself to stick with it. Open up some SNES spritesheets, switch the colour depth to 8bit mode and do some recolours. In 8bit mode, after selecting a colour with the eyedropper tool, any changes you make on the colour selector will change that colour throughout your drawing. If that plus layers doesn't make you perm delete every copy of MSpaint on your computer, then there must be something very wrong with you

Good stuff so far. Keep it up.

[Souly]

Edited the smaller robot up a bit.

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Death from above.
Edit: His head was much too flat
Edit2: There was a glitch happening with the body.

Time to try and animate those claws.

Rotation


Snap, trying to learn motion trails.

[TrevoriuS]

Your motion trail starts before movement but should be during and/or after movement, also your motion trail begins at a spot on which the original object never was. A good way to create a motion trail is by making the previous frame black and pasting the next frame on top of it so you can see what are the exact changes in the object. Then you can use for example an outline of the black (silhouette of the) previous frame to base your motion trail on.

[Souly]

Any better?
I started the trail from where the wide open claw was.

[Camdog]

Something about how the motion trails form small points just seems inherently wrong to me. When I see motion trails like that, I think, ok, a sword shape would make that; very little movement from the base, a lot coming from the end, therefore forming a sort of pointed looking motion train. But the claw is so rounded, it's kind of tricky. I'm probably not making that much sense.

In any case, the motion trains from the closing ought to be diagonal somewhat, instead of horizontal. Unless the claw thrusts forward as it closes, which would be pretty damn cool.

[WhiteNoise]

There is a properly defined name for motion trails in the gaming industry. They are called 'swooshes'

[Souly]

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I think it's starting to look better.

Edit: added another swoosh so it shrinks instead of dissapears.

[chigsam]

On the opening frame the swoosh gives me the impression that its 'bending' so that the tip comes open first. Maybe a few thin lines that get thicker towards the tip of the month may look a little better.

[Souly]

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Any better?
Edit: Should I open his mouth more?