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[standardcombo]

I think the back shoulder changes are good except in the two-handed sword case. In that case, holding of the weapon would bring the shoulder forward along with the rest of the upper body. I liked it better in the previous one. Like I mentioned, holding something heavy!

[Zanhuf]

I think the back shoulder changes are good except in the two-handed sword case. In that case, holding of the weapon would bring the shoulder forward along with the rest of the upper body. I liked it better in the previous one. Like I mentioned, holding something heavy!

Like this?

[standardcombo]

That's the one. On that 1 frame where the back arm is to the left it seems to disappear, or go through the torso. Not sure how to fix though.

[Zanhuf]

I've decided to do away with the black outlines, as i was told the pieces look better without them

I also Decided to spruce up the two-handed sword attack animation as practice as well as to make it look less stock:



Tried sub-pixelling but i still haven't got the concept down.

Also practiced showing different sides/perspectives in a rotating base:

[Zanhuf]

Update:

Removed unneeded frames and removed taunt.



Tried playing around again with sub-pixelling, I hope it looks like he's actually breathing this time.

[Alevice]

i dont think the breath animation reads correctly yet. you might want to slightly arc the torso forward a bit and tilt his head a bit upwards. i know it might be a little less logical specially on a tired animation, but i believe it could read better.

[Zanhuf]

i dont think the breath animation reads correctly yet. you might want to slightly arc the torso forward a bit and tilt his head a bit upwards. i know it might be a little less logical specially on a tired animation, but i believe it could read better.

Will give this a go!

Updaten:



Tried to make the leap between idle and attack less uh pronounced and increased wind-up, hopefully it adds more impact.

[SolarLune]

^ Hm, that looks cool, though leaning forward like that when you're resting seems weird (and of course putting the sword there is all about style > function). You should probably lean the character's center of gravity back when he places the sword on his shoulder.

[Zanhuf]

^ Hm, that looks cool, though leaning forward like that when you're resting seems weird (and of course putting the sword there is all about style > function). You should probably lean the character's center of gravity back when he places the sword on his shoulder.

Hopefully this edit sorts that issue out:

Reduced length of frames, removed head looking down, made him lean back when he's lifting the sword onto his shoulder, made him lean forward whilst he swings the sword upward, altered breathing sub-pixelling again and generally tried to make it more fluid and less stiff:



Update:

Some issues with the front leg, so tried to fix them, also added recoil and tried to smooth out the animation when he's bringing the sword back up after swinging it:

[Zanhuf]

Not as happy with this as the two-handed version:



The sword on the shoulder is probably redundant, but i wanted to make it look more interesting.

Edit:

Without the sword and shoulder, as well as other, small changes:

[Zanhuf]

Decided to add a scabard, just for excercise's sake, but it's deviated into two animations, not sure which one is more "effective":



He sheathes it whilst in the same position as he was afting attacking



He sheathes it after he recovers, whilst standing up.

I know it's not much of a difference, but im interested in hearing your opinions.

Personally i like the first one, but i don't know it feels like he looks like a samurai almost, even if thats not what i intended.

[standardcombo]

 I agree with you it affects the personality portrayed. Both are good. I like what you do to the foreground arm.

[Zanhuf]

Updated spear attack:



Updated archer attack:

[Zanhuf]

Not much of an update, but decided to mess around animating an orc's idle-stance animation:

[Zanhuf]

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late, i usually try to make daily posts, so i can chart my progress but i have been a bit busy with personal stuff:

Not a big change, but i've been playing around with idle-stances, trying to make the characters look less boring when they aren't attacking:



 Stance influenced by Kaede's from Last Blade:




Also added an attempt at a second attack, not an overhead, more of a sideways slash as such, probably needs alot of fixing though.

Edit:



On retrospect, if he's holding a shield he'd pretty much be holding it up all the time, hopefully this quick edit addresses this

[Zanhuf]

I've thought about amalgamating the two swings into one big one, so here's what it looks like:



Also im aware of how bad the blur lines are, just a quick attempt at them tbh will work on them again.

Also did a varient of the non-shield version, with him sheathing the sword after:

[Zanhuf]

Been getting a tad burnt out from all the animating, so decided to go back to the bigger base version i was working on before i started animating:

[Zanhuf]

Made a bigger, more detailed version. Will probably apply what i've learnt to the medium version if this is an improvement/any better:

[Zanhuf]

Biggish update; made two versions of the medium and big version and placed Ash Crimson's sprite next to it for comparison:

[Zanhuf]

Tried my hand at animating an idle stance for the base, more of a practice and getting used to animating larger sprites than anything I'd probably end up using.



I'm finding the jump from animating sprites with 1 pixel limbs to animating sprites where limbs consist of many pixels to be quite jarring at the moment, hopefully it won't always be like that.