Dying Animation help

[hsn2555]

o.O it's an explosion man ! he got exploded and nothing happened to his chest !!
i suggest you add some black to his chest, and turn off his eyes light.

nice job 1up 

[redballoon]

Yep, looking very good but as everyone else is saying - it needs debris and the robot itself needs to show some damage. Keep going, I want to see more.

[Chris2balls]

A little rushed and OTT, should've added parts blown away.

[gumol]

He looks like he's been shot by a machine rocket launcher (a combination of machine gun and a rocket launcher ;P) and eventually exploded. xD
(about Chris2balls edit)

[1up]

OKAY


death 1, now with eye dim




death 2, now with more boom

[Dusty]

Now I wonder with all this smoke and explosions, if they'd be better off as separate entities that the game handles rather than being rigid and predefined in the animation itself.

[Mike]

looking good maybe... maybe when the robot guy hits the floor his eyes/red glass stuff breaks.

 DO THIS!!!  But really exaggerate it!!

Now I wonder with all this smoke and explosions, if they'd be better off as separate entities that the game handles rather than being rigid and predefined in the animation itself.

You mean as particle effects right?

[Dusty]

You mean as particle effects right?

Not really. They can be "traditionally" animated, but be generated separately from the actual NPCs.

I guess that doesn't really matter in the long run since he'd have to create some mock-up animations for us to see them in action anyways.

[1up]

You mean as particle effects right?

Not really. They can be "traditionally" animated, but be generated separately from the actual NPCs.

I guess that doesn't really matter in the long run since he'd have to create some mock-up animations for us to see them in action anyways.

we've actually already got that going on with the playable characters (upper body/legs) to avoid jumpiness and overall bad quality

I dont see why it couldn't be used here. It would probably cut down on lag a bit for lower end computers too

[Jad]

Yo guy, explosions move too much to feel smooth, you gotta make them combusting explosion clouds move smaller distances pixelwise frame-to-frame or it'll seem jerky. Note how in my explosion the framecount isn't only off the charts, but stuff doesn't move a lot from one frame to next, cause this leaves much clearer after-images to the eyes that now interpret the motion as jerky since it looks (cause it is) split up into still frames.

Heh.

So make fast motions very fast and slow motions very subtle and the eyes will see smoothness O: fantabulastic

oh also btw if the explosion looks like my original colour-and-motion-wise I'll only be flattered so copy as much as you like, you dude you