betcha didn’t know that, well you probably knew from my last post on animation about 2 years ago, but that was 3D animation; and I haven’t posted anything animation related in a while. So I put this raw animation together, It’s supposed to be for a game I’m working on and right now I’m just experimenting with different animation methods and testing the waters in regards to how I would go about creating a Fighting game in blender game engine.
So I actually started this as part of a game I was developing, It would be a fighting game and utilise sprite based animation to accommodate my diverse skill set of 3D animation, 2D animation, Illustration, Graphic design, Character design and Game design. I first wanted to see how I would go about setting up a sprite in Blender; which is a very unconventional task but since I’m most familiar with Blender; it seemed like the best bet.
So here I experimented with using a 3D model I produced years ago to Map out positions and see how well I could translate the motion into a sprite animation, Honestly this went pretty terribly. took weeks to produce the animation and didn’t really look that good, but whatever I got an example sprite animation to work with; a basic idle animation for the character Itsuwa from To Aru Majutsu no Index/ or A Certain Magical Index, simply so then I could justify putting tags for a popular series. Plus I wanted to gauge how well individuals liked the Prospect of a fighting game based on a popular Japanese IP.
Although the weapon worked out very well, I liked the Line art that was generated and how the Lighting was calculated; made me figure that this would be great specifically for mapping out sprites of objects, It could theoretically still be used to map out a figure with greater consistency and quality like what was used for the modelled out spear. I would just need to create a greater quality human model, Which I’m already working on.
So here I did a basic set up for the sprite with 3 main layers: Base, Colour and Line-art/highlights. the Base is the Highest quality Image of the sprite with a grayscale colour profile compensating for the Slow down that would normally be caused by utilising High quality sprites, the next is a very low quality giff that is comprised of all the colours for the Sprite that are Multiplied over the Base image of the frame, I can change the colour by offsetting the frame but can’t seem to have the frames modified while in game. I will work on this. so yeah, as you can probably tell the three main pieces all have the same aspect ratio so they overlap and fit perfectly over each other regardless of the image quality and they all modify over one another very smoothly and performance seems very optimal in game, If necessary I can reduce the image quality of the sprite as it’s generally too big… Also the animation kind of sucks… so then I worked on a new Animation, so I can focus on actually producing something presentable rather than experimentation.
Sorry for the Shitty Quality
So yeah; It’s been a while since I drew this character, Original character I designed 3 years ago for a college course and have been really raring to get this girl animated, I’ll probably model out her armour and weapons in blender and utilise that option to represent her final sprite; Once I’ve redesigned her that is. So yeah I wanted a strong animation on here and I got one. I’ve come a long way since my first animation… well my first animation was using a flip book in junior school or something… whatever.
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