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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Topic: Animated Droid
    Posted: 30 June 2005 at 5:32pm
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I started in this last night.  I wanted to make an walking steam-powered droid. It orginally had more than 3 legs but I thought it looked a little more old and "steam-powered" kind of like in the movie 'Wild Wild West"

any tips?


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Quote Saboteur Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2005 at 6:19pm
The one front leg makes is not balanceable. It looks odd because of that. Also, to make it look steam powered, make some pipes and have them blast out smoke at moments of needed effort.
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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2005 at 6:47pm
yeah I was gonna do the smoke idea. little puffs, cute. But it's balanceable, or else it would fall over, and is it falling over? jk... but the two back legs are spread far apart, so it's balanced.

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2005 at 10:14pm

The front leg drag looks a little weird to me.  Unfortunately I'm zero help in suggesting an alternative.

I'd love to see the steam too.

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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2005 at 10:43pm
So okay, I decided to take the animation a step further by shading the top. I still have to shade the legs, as you can see below in the looping animation:



And THEN I decided to go all out and make a fun little retro gun pop out of it's skull like so:


That took forever... seriously ;)

so all I have left to do is shade the legs, combine the animation in, and AA everything :D


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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2005 at 12:17am
The way it pops out is fantastic.  Nice little "snap" to it.
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Quote kankki Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2005 at 2:09am
But you could shade the legs and the "downpart" of the body. Otherwise I say it's very cool! Keep the nice work up!
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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 11:21am


Okay I finished but my stupid crap animation program makes motion trails. There's one on the big leg right after the gun closes, and one on the gun right after it pops back in.

Could anyone erase this for me? My animation program wont let me :(


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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 11:46am


Okay the reason the motion trails were happening was because it was transparent. So I made it have a background, if someone could make the green background transparent, that would be great :)
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Quote Blueberry_pie Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 1:03pm
Nice work, I really like how this turned out 
Especially the laser gun popping out.
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Quote Lawrence Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 2:45pm
Here you go ryan:

And I must say, it is a splendid animation, good work.


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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 3:06pm
Thanks but... It does the trail thing again O_o
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 3:55pm

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Quote MeganClare Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2005 at 8:21am
Awesome, love the finished result. Reminds me of star wars :)
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Quote tommy j4sun Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2005 at 12:36pm
have you seen war of the worlds? i say move the leg in the front to the back then make them move like the tripods in the movie.
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Quote leel Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2005 at 6:40pm
hmm... I see a cool looking gun with a "snap" but it aint shootin nothin :( lol, nice animation!
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Quote kankki Replybullet Posted: 10 July 2005 at 2:04am
Very niceniceniceniceniecnicenicenicenice man!

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Quote TACW Replybullet Posted: 17 July 2005 at 7:06am
Very smooth animation. :) I got the trail thing one time on my one animation. It bugs the heck out of me. Why does it do that???
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