Lucky's Tale a few GIFs

monster · Mar 2016

Here's a small sample of the animations I did for Lucky's Tale, now available for FREE in the Oculus Home store. (Rift support only, DK2 is not support but works.)

All models here done by the amazing @DerekLeBrun

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/FoxRun01.gif

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Sleeping01.gif

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/IdleFlying01.gif

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/BatIdle01.gif

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/NewMobs.gif

Larger gifs:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Birdy.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/Seagulls.gif
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/CannonInGame.gif
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/LuckyPiggySleeping.gif
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/MagicOwl.gif

PolyHertz · Mar 2016

Love the bouncy chicken.

Lucky though is a bit weird; Why does the fur curve forwards when he opens his mouth (looks gelatinous when bouncing back)? And I'd think when running it would sort of flow up and down in the wind. His tail tail would also probably have more bounce given the angle its attached to him at vs his running position.

Arturow · Mar 2016

so cute , love the style

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2016

So good Moster. Huge platformer fan. Really love the style.

jeffvoss · Mar 2016

These are great.

AcTTooN · Mar 2016

Awesome .. love the style.

Dvolution · Mar 2016

Juan...yes. These are great man.

Nice to see some new animation from you.

EliasWick · Mar 2016

Amazing! I don't know if you reply to posts but if you do. I have 2 questions:

From what I can see, is this done in 3D Studio Max, and what version?
How long have you worked with animation?

Thanks!

Bruno Afonseca · Mar 2016

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

WormSlayer · Mar 2016

Sweet, I've been playing Lucky's Tale on my DK2, while waiting for 'dat shipping notice, I love the derpy chicken :P

monster · Apr 2016

@EliasWick I've been animating in games for about 15 years. And most of that time has been using 3ds Max. Lucky used my perpetually unreleased rigging tool: http://www.coolrig.com/

The other creatures were all just use straight up FK joints and morph targets for their expressions. But I was able to use my coolRIG pose tool. And I wired morph targets to controllers when possible.

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/Lucky/CopyPoseTool.gif

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/Lucky/Squash.gif

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/Lucky/Attack01.gif

monster · Apr 2016

@PolyHertz
Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep those things in mind in the future. The head animation was awkward because it was limited to the neck and up. When the character got close to a point of interest he would do animated expressions. Something like this:

Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/gifs/Mockups/AngryLucky2.gif

But I totally can't unsee the jello-ness that you mention.

EliasWick · Apr 2016

This is just so incredible cool! Animating is quite new to me, but I am glad to see such an amazing result done in 3D Studio Max. People tell you that Maya is the best software for Animating, but you proved me wrong!

Thank you so much for a detailed explanation! Yet again! Amazing work there!

Bruno Afonseca · Apr 2016

Is the puffing up a morph target? I'd love to play around with coolRig, hope you get the chance to release it

lotet · Apr 2016

hey, I litterary just watched a playthrough of this on youtube, looks great

good job and congrats!

monster · Apr 2016

Thanks guys!

@Bruno Afonseca
The puffing and the mouth closing are morph targets, I couldn't get the mouth to close nicely with just skinning. I wired the morph channel to the position value of the controller.