The OPP jungle needs some more inhabitants!

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Of course there are some animals, but many are lacking animations!
Help us create a jungle filled with creatures!

Every creation should be using the DB32 palette and follow the style guide!


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Todo
Animations can include among others: Walk, idle, attack, die, etc.

• Monkey with animations, there are a few abandoned monkeys that can be picked up, or create a whole new one

• Puma style decision needs to be made, and animations can be made or finished

or

• Frog is almost finished, only the jump animation still needs two alternate colors.
  

* some parts already done see below

• Stone golem needs animation

• Leaf golem needs cleanup and animation
  

Idea list
New ideas always welcome

* Jungle animals: Zebra, Giraffe, Lion, Flamingo, Hippo, Gazelle,
* Forest animals: Squirrel, fox, rabbit, bear

Finished in this thread
Items of which we think that they are done

New frog :D

Jumping animation:

Edited by Hapiel - 26 January 2015 at 2:13am

The back end of the elephant would currently make for an odd hit box for a platform. Maybe make it a bit flatter across the top? Some possible details on it could be a flapping tail, covered in mud, flys flying around it.


Cleaning up the leaf golem before animating.

Edited by Noburo - 24 December 2014 at 12:25pm

Good call. Here is the current state of it, but I'll work on the size of the head on the next edit.

I think it would normally be done by breaking the animation up. A jump and a loopable fall animation. Also it would need to be arranged in a static animation, so each frame is stacked on the previous one, just like the walking animations.

Hey Hapiel! I have an answer to your question about how a programmer would do variable jumps etc. First off, we never build in physics into the animation that is all handled by the code. Character sprites do not change in horizontal or vertical distance. It's all animating in one single location. Afterward a programmer would just code in the physics and conditions. In your animation it would be broken up into 4 animations. Jump prepare, Jump, Fall, and Land. All of these animations are triggered with events. Character is colliding with ground, player presses 'X' make character jump and play jump prepare. If character Y is negative(going upward) character is jumping/play jump anim, if character Y is positive (going downward) character is falling/play falling. Character collides with background while falling anim is playing, play animation land.

Hope that helps!

Depending on how the animation is set up in the code, it might not make a difference in implementation difficulty at all, and barring some ridiculously arcane system, it shouldn't be difficult even if it does make a difference.
The important thing is that no matter how many frames you have, they loop well, and that the animations that can come afterwards all transition well from any frame. With something like minor limb movements during a jump/fall, that should be easy to achieve. If making it one frame looks good, go for it. But if making it multiple looping frames would look better, feel free to do that too.

Cool, I like this! I'm looking forward to see more of it :).
Most of the straight lines work great, but especially in the face watch out that they don't take over too much, or it'll end up not matching the style as much as it could.

Contrast works fine I guess, it is nice to have some darker creatures :)

The simplicity I would agree with you on; the face was far from done regardless. Anyhow, Got another update!

Detailed the face some more, raised the back legs, and still busy working on the shading. As well, I also added a second head variation, couldn't decide which I liked best.

Thanks for the reference pic by the way, don't know why I didn't think of that! ;p


Edited by gogglecrab - 05 January 2015 at 5:46pm

I really like the gorilla Goggle! Any progress on it?

I was curious how hard it would be to recolor some animations, and it went way faster than I expected! I am leaving the attack animations for now, whoever feels like recoloring those too can go ahead...

Thats a cool alternative! The back of the head/trunk doesn't work though. The only time you would see the other side of the trunk like that, is when you're looking down somewhat on the character. Because we're viewing the character from the side, you'd only really see the front of the head/trunk and maybe some of the bark sticking up from behind.

Here's a very quick edit:

Waow! That golem edit looks sharp! I've continued tweaking it but hadn't uploaded the progress just yet. Here is all of my updates along with you guys'

But that is how frogs jump :(

Actually all animals that jump from their hind legs to their front legs do this a bit, but searching for sprites from horses/big cats etc the animations are always simplified so that no rotation is required...
I guess I need to think of a way to simplify this animation too so that the poor thing stays upright...

1 more clear vid that shows landing rather than only jump and another


Edited by Hapiel - 14 January 2015 at 5:02pm

Made an edit of the Yeti :) Still some flaws, so be sure to point them out or edit it! And now the chimp too!



Edited by Damian - 17 January 2015 at 1:37pm

Hapiel my man! I knew it was missing something but after messing with it for so long I just couldn't quite put my finger on it. Just needed a fresh pair of eyes! It looks much better now, thanks for the help!

By the way I also took the liberty of adding the new frogs to the wiki as well, hope you don't mind. ;)

In order to make a game work, we need at least one fully animated "hero".

There was this native guy in the old style who had all animations, but since we switched to a new style, he needs to be recreated..

Animating for me is the easy part, but first that hero sprite needs to be finished. I should get back to my anatomy drawing lessons, this takes way more effort for me than I think it should, but here is a draft. Feel free to edit and improve!


On the right all the guys he was inspired by. I hoped to make him a bit smaller than the rest, a bit of an 'anti hero'. But perhaps the current version is too buff for that. I don't want to give him the spear or other huge accessories, a hero perhaps needs to be a bit neutral.. But at the same time not boring..

I like this monkey so much, so I took the liberty of improve the outline and colors

I like the improvements on the face, hands and back that you made, but i think the tip of the tail is a little messy in the outline.

Do you have an idea for animations? Maybe I can try to do something.

Very cool ;)