okay two more days to get the amazons controller finished. This is the most complicated one and serves as a template for the remaining ones. It is mostly the same as the prototype one, though under the hood its cleaner code, all nicely standardized so doing the other heroes' controllers will be pretty mindless work,…
okay a couple things got locomotion started for the kusarikku. I love this guy. i've realized that doing so much animations for so many hours, i tend to get tunnel vision and lose ability to critique my work usefully. I think its better if i just get a quick job done and then review it a couple days later. These animations…
Really striking ! The speed at which both the characters and environment are evolving is inspiring. These breakdowns and wireframe shots are great. Maybe one day, more big studios will finally realize the value of working that way (not necessarily with unlit assets, but at low specs in general). Can't wait to see more !
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…
@iam717 that's an excellent reference image. idea like that could work well for an underground labyrinth level. i think my shader right now has most of the features to support it so i'll give it a go once i get to that level
Okay so original plan for trailer was to just keyframe everything and have "fake" gameplay for the gameplay sequences. Simply because this would be fastest. But for some of the scenes it is going to be too difficult, so I am working on getting a couple animation blueprints setup. Then I can get the gameplay back in action…
Enviro work. trying to nail down composition and colors to get the right feel for each scene. for the panorama view here, I feel like the instanced trees in distance don't feel right. Perhaps an abstracted version should be used beyond a certain point or something. Just feels like a clash of style as many of these trees…
thanks neox. i am kicking myself for not trying it sooner. but live and learn. i should mention as well, everything would probably look like 50% worse if I didn't get some help from Fabian. He's a much better artist than I am, so having a few models made from him has helped a lot in giving me direction and also focus in…
thanks for feedback guys @pxgeek - yeah you are right. the big guy has been challenging to animate because he has such short limbs and big body. I spent more time on him than others, but eventually got tired enough I decided to just drop it for the moment and knock out some easier things. Working on his attack especially…
These are going so quick I added some extra characters. The male centaur is extra, figured i could make a variation pretty quick once I had the horse base mesh to go from. A prehistoric red deer vibe for him. The females face feels a little off, but doing faces takes as much time and energy as the entire rest of the thing,…