feel like i've learned a lot about animation in past few days, wanted to jot down a few notes - adding eye animation makes big difference it seems. even on low res gifs i think it does a lot to bring the characters to life. The satyr character has ears and tail which also help to add a lot of emotion. For example i do a…
got rig for the persian setup. she swaps between sword/shield mode and bow mode so a few extra controllers for that. She also has some dreadlocks and skirt to be simulated but setting that up is tedious so i do it later and keep knocking out the big things for now. The good thing is that rigs and animations are starting to…
Redid Gilgamesh model. The original one was very abstract design, I think I prefer to stick a little closer to realism, at least for this character as he has a pretty human story. Perhaps some monsters or more comic characters could be more abstract in design though. The design I followed pretty close from a reference that…
okay got most of the persians major animations a first pass. Feeling pretty iffy about the timing of the melee attack. It seems to go a little too fast, but if I slow it down like 10-20% then it feels sluggish to me. Perhaps I ought to keep same length of time, but hold the extreme poses for a couple more frames so then…
got the diegetic ammo display done. also note how bad the spartans animation is. Actually the posing I am fine with, but its way too fast. Hard to know if its right until its in the game. But timing ultimately depends on what works best for gameplay, so even though it looks awful right now and I want to change it, I'll…
Okay, no update on this project for a minute because been working on an update for an older game and it takes a lot longer than I hoped. But its nearly complete so I have been returning to this. I have been working on scheduling more than anything. After preproduction and then actually doing production task for awhile,…
Okay todays task was rig for the amazon and then her key poses, but I decided to go ahead and do some updates to the model that I had in the back of my mind. Perhaps I wasted time though, feel pretty undecided whether or not this change should be used. I made her more like the famous statues of amazons. The previous…
some more work on this scene. I changed the way it is laid out a bit wanted to take a break from the complex palace for a moment, and focus on something more simple, landscape and rocks on this peninsula approach. I find it easy to build natural things all day long, but buildings really drain me. trying to make a play…
Okay, no new art, but some thoughts about marketing that might be something to think about even for other artist if they are thinking about how to market themselves with portfolio. So I will start making some youtube devlogs because the common advice is to get started with marketing as soon as possible. Since the game…
Okay a few things worth noting. got most of the teaser trailer characters rigged and made just enough stepped animations to confirm the timing for the entire trailer. I won't share the actual trailer until after I've premiered it publicly. I'll show a few screenshots though. Keep in mind the environments are very…