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[Wilson Saunders]

Just added the catch and swing animation for the monkey ninja. I hope some one out there has need of a monkey ninja. Unless there are special requests for that guy I am going to move on.

[Lon]

Ninja Monkey!

I spent the last few weeks learning Blender.

Good for you.  I should put some time into learning Blender.
I was kinda wondering how you animated those dragons.

Ive got some game ideas for those dragons. 
It can be amazing how images, animations and music can inspire people.

[Wilson Saunders]

I was kinda wondering how you animated those dragons.

I rigged my textured dragon model then duplicated it 8 times shifting it 2 Blender units and rotating 45 degrees on the Z axis. I then posed the first model, saved the pose, and duplicated it for the other 8 models. After that I did a render in orthographic mode with a black background (because blender anti-aliases and anti-aliased pink looks ugly). I saved the render to a png, and repeated the posing steps for the next position in the animation. Once I had a full animation 4-8 frames, I loaded all the renders into GIMP, cropped them, turned the background to Magenta, and saved them as .png.

I don't know blender well enough to use its animation tools to stream line the process, but it is the output that counts right?

[Sar]

After that I did a render in orthographic mode with a black background (because blender anti-aliases and anti-aliased pink looks ugly).

As a suggestion - perhaps you could do two renders, one with the materials (or whatever, I'm not a 3D guy) and lighting that you've got there, and another in the same poses/positions with a fully-ambient-lit totally-white material on the same black background, so it's usable as an alpha mask for people who don't want the black fringe?

(And/or possibly do the dragon against a dark red background, so the fringe isn't so contrasty with the model?)

[Sos]

This is awesome

[undertech]

Those dragons really take me back - reminds me of the dragons I saw in UO. No, I'm not saying you copied. But yes, they would make good reference material since they are also 3d rendered isometric sprites.

[Wilson Saunders]

The dragon was modeled, textured, rigged, and posed by me and I have the WIP to prove it. However about 1/2 way through I realized it looked a lot like the Ultima Online dragon. You don't see that many isometricly rendered of red 3d dragons outside of UO, but the concept is generic enough I don't think any one would fault me for it.

[+peter]

The dragon was modeled, textured, rigged, and posed by me and I have the WIP to prove it. However about 1/2 way through I realized it looked a lot like the Ultima Online dragon. You don't see that many isometricly rendered of red 3d dragons outside of UO, but the concept is generic enough I don't think any one would fault me for it.

I won't fault you, rather commend you on learning Blender for this contest! 

[Wilson Saunders]

I realized the dragon will be of no use if you can't kill it. So here is the getting hit/ death animaiton:



Does any one want me to render the dragon from other angles? Now that I have the model it would not be too hard to do a top down or side view.

[Melly]

Awesomesaucer!