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[Derek]

Yeah, that is awesome!  She reminds me of Elena from SFIII a bit with the white hair, outfit, and long kick.

I'll find some time this weekend to do some animations, too.

[___]

I really like that style, its like shes made out of like a splash of ink or something, combined with the thick black outline it really makes a unique KICKIN' STYLE.

[Inane]

<- mine on the right
I still have a problem with the balance of it, so I made me an quick edit ^ 1 more frame than yours frame I think
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[Guert]

Sorry, I couldn't resist to make a really quick edit of my own... Sorry if it's not clean. Feel free to ignore me



I felt like she lost a lot of momentum by kicking when landing. Plus, I twisted the leg since kicking with the feet in the position you guys had usualy requires a straight thrust or a circular movement. I made her arm move around to give the kick more strenght and made her crouch more to really show she is jumping. I also paused the attack on the hit frame to make it look stronger and put less emphasis on the "going back to main key frame" part of the animation.

The kick would work better, in my opinion, without the jumping part because it will make it faster. But, if the kick is powerful, a bit of timing is ok gameplay wise. Like the strong kicks in SF2. So yeah anyway, just my 2 cents...

Edit: Forgot to mention that the pause I added can be removed for a smoother animation and faster gameplay.

[kyn]

I prefer this one

Bot all of them are awesome, it's kind of tough to decide.

[Valter]

I like Guert's too. The others are too unnatural: Naija's body posture should move more while she's doing something like a kick. Also, the more delay in animations, the more time it takes to execute moves during gameplay, which slows the game down.

[Soulliard]

I added the kicking animation to the game, and it looks perfect. I did have to remove one frame from the beginning, unfortunately, and I had to speed the animation up to about twice the current speed. It's a little harder to admire at the higher speed, but Flipper Kick is supposed to be a quick attack.

Keep the wonderful animation's coming! 

By the way, not all animations need to be that detailed. It's nice when they are, of course, but since the game moves so fast, you can probably afford to leave out a few frames to save time.

[Seth]

I think she needs to be leaning back a bit, though, it looks like she's about to fall forward.  Looks great besides that, though.

[Derek]

Here we go!  I think these could be much improved - especially the walk animation, which is a pretty wonky (although maybe you could attribute that to Naija being on land!  NOT.).  It definitely needs some animation of the head/hands.

I won't touch any of these for at least a week, so by all means, feel free to edit them!  Make 'em better!  I just wanted to get a good start goin'.

Walking -

Jumping -

Energy Blast -

Beast Prepare -

Beast Charge Left -


I definitely call the portrait, though, and I'll get that done soonish.  LET'S GET CRACKIN' PEOPLE! 

(This is a lot of fun.)

[Soulliard]

 

You just made my day. Naija is finally alive!


I have a few general comments on the sprites submitted so far:
1- Naija's outline is currently a very dark shade of gray. I think it should be black. Otherwise it may be lighter than some parts of the background.

2- Indie Brawl is a very fast-paced game! Many of the animations submitted so far are beautiful, but too long. For example, Naija spends 4 frames preparing to beast charge, and Derek's transformation sprite is 7 frames long, so I had to cut off the first 3 frames. Plus, it's difficult to appreciate the subtleties of the remaining animation since the animation's so quick. A 2-frame animation would have done the job nearly as well, and would probably have been much easier to create.

In short, there's no need to make really long animations, since most attacks take only about 2/5 of a second to execute. Every time I have to delete a frame, a little bit of me dies inside... 

[Yigguth]

[Oracle]

KUDOS, that is top notch my friend 

[Derek]

Alright, I think this is it other than the portrait and the plant!

Hurt -

Shield -
(Yigguth, yours is cool, too!  Either way!)

Flipper Kick -

Plant Seed -

Throw -

Whirlpool -

[Seth]

Looks great Derek!

I think the flipper kick looks off though.  I you have more frames for the side kick parts than the kick part perpendicular to us, so it's like she's moving her leg slowly at first, then fast as she pivots, then slowly again (even accounting for the starting/stopping frames)

Here's my suggested fix, where I just deleted two frames:




yours:



Alternatively you could add more frames instead of taking them out


The more I stare at Naija spinning the less I'm sure I'm right, but I'll post this anyway 

[Valter]

I think you're dead-on, Seth. Remember, as Nightshade has mentioned many times  before, this is a fighting game. Most of the animations need to be snappy!

[Zaratustra]

Shouldn't Naija go Plant and Energy form for the respective attacks?

[moi]

Maybe she could use two frames for the HURT animation?

[Derek]

Yay, thanks, Seth!  That looks much better.  Edits are good good GOOD.

I thought about having her change forms for each move but I wasn't sure how readable it'd be as some of these moves are fast.  The other thing is that I knew I'd never get it done if I did.

But maybe partial changes would work better than a full change, anyway.

[Soulliard]

A-friggin-mazing!

I'll add those as soon as I get time.

[neon]

this thread is why i love tigsource.