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[Soulliard]

I think we're getting ahead of ourselves, then. There are already a lot of stages planned that should probably be finished first.

[Ego_Shiner]

I wasn't saying we should do it right away, but there's nothing wrong with ideas.

[Finals]

How about something like this for the walk animation?



It plays really slow in a browser, but if you sped it up a little bit it would look much better. 

[KennEH!]

I don't know much abut this, but wouldn't that cause horrible frame rate problems?

[Ego_Shiner]

Yeah, I think a quick, but ominous walk would work fine.

[shig]

He shouldn't flash so much when teleporting.

In fact he should just suddenly be somewhere else. If anything, make his sprite quickly go transparent before disappearing.

Or it could be like one of The King of Fighters's characters, Chris, did in one of his attacks. I'll post some youtube video that shows this specific attack sometime later when I get home.

But anyways, I think that for his walk he should, well, walk.

[Rory]

How about...



THIS!

Just thought I'd play around with the mace-thingy's position a bit. I'm still not entirely happy with it, I think it needs to be rotated clockwise a bit, but I generally suck at pixel art anyway, so... yeah

Best I could do in 30 minutes with Adobe Fireworks.

I still think the teleport walking could work, if the teleport animation wasn't so bright and flashy and in-your-face. But I also agree with Tuna, yay for ominosity. (is that even a word?)

Damnit shig! That's what I get for typing a reply after half an hour of not refreshing

[shig]

Hm, I think I prefer the other one a bit.

This one isn't as intimidating as the other one IMO.

[Ego_Shiner]

Agreed. The other one looks like he doesn't need to put in much effort. This one looks like he's too cautious.

[Rory]

Oh well. It was fun to make

[Pigbuster]

Cabadath walks at the end of that video Tazi linked to.
I've made a quick and dirty gif for future reference:



Perfectly straight posture and no arm swinging. More of a march, really.

[Seth]

I know this game will have its own style of characters but I feel like Cabadeth lost a lot of his character in the sprite translation.  Shouldn't he be taller and stiffer, i feel like all the indie brawl characters are looking too slick

[Soulliard]

I don't know about his stiffness, but his height's about right. Any taller and his scale will be off compared to the other characters.

[Rory]

I think the mace/spear thingy needs to be held vertically. I think that would be more... I dunno, cool?

[Tazi]

Actually, I think a full vertical mace holding would be really cool, and more in-character. Actually this is how he holds it in the games. 

[it_is_coming]

His head seems way too big to be scary and ominous. I know this is a stylistic thing, but it just seems out of character to me.

[Rory]

Hmm... maybe. I suppose it is supposed to b head proportioned after all.

[Soulliard]

His head needs to be that size. Otherwise, he'll look pinheaded compared to the other characters.

[it_is_coming]

ah yes, that's a good point.

I think it's that it is too round. It might look better and more cabadath-like if the shape of the head was more defined. I understand that that would be a lot of work, but I think it would look better.

[Ego_Shiner]