Delicious Wonderbros

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attempt 6 at this project
taking it seriously this time




i've really only done animations a few times up to this point, so help with those would be great

i'm hoping to get the rest of shawn's basic movement animations finished up in a few days so we can get a basic engine started. the guy who was coding last time might crap out on this because he's still not entirely confident in his skills/plays left4dead all day so someone here who'd be willing to help in case he does would be great.

[Mathias]

As usual, nice characters. But ah the rare 4th dimension now. The walk is nice but isn't he leaning back too much? And the run seems a bit iffy, almost like the same animation could be used for him running backwards. The head is a little static, could that hat be given a little bounce? Maybe some hair strands out of place, bobbing around.

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figured i'd get some more opinions on this

here's the normal jump:


and here's where i'm having some trouble:




1, 2, or should i find a middleground with 1 frame of lag before and after the jump

i've gotten suggestions to make the before/after lag of the jump actually happen in the air, or to just redo the running jump entirely and make it more of a bound


and i'll start up on fixing the run

edit:

took the lazy route and just added some head rotation

[hsn2555]

amazing job,
try to animate the coat ,the hair and the hat. like adding a little motion to them.

[GuilhermeEin]

I think there's something wrong with the cap of the boy in purple clothes. It looks like the curved part of the cap is in another persepective...

Sorry if i'm not clear enough.

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i'll get around to fixing him up when i start working on all of his animations

for now there's what i have for the jump, i'm not sure if i'm actually going to keep the delay before taking off though, i'll worry about it when we get the engine working

need to finish these:
-idle
-attack
-strong attack
-hurt
-dying

and i should be done with Shawn's animations. might have forgotten to list a few fairly important ones though, so just mention if i did

[Overkill]

I like the running animation, but your arms seem to fly around too much. And they're too high (and short in these frames), I think. It seems like he's punching the air, since the arms are at shoulder height. And having the arms that high on the backswing seems even more unnatural.

Other than that I like it, the legs are nice, and the jump is pretty good.

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few more animations here
basic attack


idle



and i ended up slowing the run down a bit just so it looked less chaotic

i've still got to fix the path of the arms though

[Shrike]

Head turn is nice, and I don't usually say that.  Keep it.
but!
SLOW DOWN.

Your run animation is not on par yet.  So don't go into run-jump and jump animations yet.  Otherwise you'll be overwhelmed with a giant collection of unfinished-sub par work.  Get the run working first.  I think you'll be much happier having a finished animation before moving on to the next, unless you simply can't move on.  Then switch.

To fix your run, keep the second speed for sure.  Arms are totally fucked up.  Make the farthest away limbs darker to add priority.  And guys, you shouldn't add things like hair bounce and cap bob until the animation is at the right spot.  Also, (pardon me) your character completely lacks emotion.

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also
>(pardon me) your character completely lacks emotion
how would you recommend i add emotion?
at the risk of sounding lazier than i normally am, i kind of like his lack of emotion as it is now. Gameplay is going to be a fast paced platformer/shmup, so enemies would be on screen during 'fights' at all times, so the lack of emotion or effort just seems to add a bit of comedic value

i might be completely off there, but whatever