Its not really a cliche so much as just how spiders tend to look when they die. Especially with his giant open eyes its going to be difficult to make him look dead the way you have it now
Some names that come to mind; Itsy, the Bitsy Spider Lil' Pete (ala Peter Parker) Also scaling the courier after you already finished the animations is a painful process, I'll have to walk you through it one night, prepare yourself.
These animations look great man. I like the death ones a lot :) Small nitpick in the second flying animation. I think the backpack might be moving too far on each drop instead of being in sync with the spider. I suppose that might be intentional though to exaggerate the animations for in-game?
I don't really want to do the flipping over and curling up death animation, it's a bit cliche for spiders in video games and I want this guy to be less spidery than cute! I might exaggerate this animation a bit more, perhaps have his head twist a little more unnaturally when he lands or something.
Here's an idle animation for him. I'm looking forward to the idle rare, I've kept having to tone down his idle animations so they weren't so obviously repetitive! Does anyone know how the rare run works? Is it just the same as the idle rare, i.e. every so often it plays the rare animations between the regular animation…
I have a love/hate relationship with learning new things. I've spent two afternoons animating a walk cycle for the spider, each time learning a ton of new skills. New skills immediately make me aware of ways I could improve the animation or the rig, which ultimately leads me to start over from scratch. There's no such…
The rare idle animations are already done! I've got some rare run animations too but the importer refuses to use them for some reason so I'm not sure if those are going to work as I can't test them. I'm working on the preview stuff for the workshop now so you'll be able to see all the animations and such soon. Ideally I'd…
More work on the spider today. With luck I'll finish this with enough time to scrape my medusa set together for the contest! Here's his flying run: And his flying death (I know his leg clips through his wing in the .gif, I spotted it while uploading this post. It's fixed now.): With these two, I now have the minimum…