Xayah Anim Breakdown

WarrenG

Hey everyone, 
I made some stuff! - First there is a dev blog I wrote about Xayah - It was not just aimed at animators so isn't too heavy on the animation side but maybe still interesting
http://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/2017/05/dev-on-animating-xayah/

Second is a video diving into stuff I learnt while working on her - more animation heavy!
https://vimeo.com/215859131

Hope you find this stuff useful/interesting, and feedback is totally welcome!

Thanks!

Hito

awesome, really dig the wing feathers on the Ult

AnthonyAnimation

Thanks for sharing! How do you decide how her wing moves? On her auto-attack and W it seems more like a cape, but on her Q it seems a bit more stiff. Is it dictated by the motion?

Einar

Thank you so much for doing this! It's so cool to see how you get that snappiness working that feels so responsive on such few frames. Really inspiring!

WarrenG

@AnthonyAnimation so for the most part we had her spinning which gave us alot for free but for the Q, due to the action of her throwing it down in front of her a spin didn't work, so we basically only had the vertical movement to keep the wing alive, and within that we could squash it and spread it out a little - so yes it was stiffer on the Q due to her motion, which was dictated by the game design goals.

Also the general rule we came up with was during fast motions it would be more cape like with nice drag but when she stops it needed to be clearly a wing - that was the idea anyway!

WarrenG

@Einar @Hito - thanks guys I want to make more in future, and yeah we spend most of the time on those first 10 -20 frames!

_adamturnbull

Great stuff @WarrenG. Thanks for sharing it! She must have been really fun to animate.