Sunday, July 7, 2013

More characters

In the last few weeks I've been trying to finish as many animations as I could, I ended up with 13 animations per character so far, and each is around 60 FPS as a minimum so I have a lot of work to do, even if I use parts like flash animations, I do a lot more to animate the parts than just rotate a piece or scale, there are a lot of small things going on on the cloths for example that adds an extra touch, also on the faces, sometimes you can feel that is like 3D, but actually everything is just 2D.

Still 2 more characters to finish and 1 needs complete design, after that level design follows and the game will be almost ready, since most of the framework is already done, music is another topic since I am learning now how to write music for the game, if I can't make anything exciting I may end up hiring someone, but I would like to be able to make eveything in this game by myself and see how it goes.

Here are some new sample animations.








This last one took quite a lot of time to get it done since it is all frame by frame drawn and painted, it may looks like a simple painting job, but there are quite many tricks inside for the cloth color change that brings. Like this:


You can see some of the palettes here with the same texture I can get very different looks by using a more planned palette placement.