Working on a new game project, for the first time in a long time, feels goood . So getting to work on the player ship sprite. It's going to be fairly complex with a fair bit of animation, but I think it will be extremely satisfying and rewarding when its done.
Basically the plan has 3 states, and here they are:

EDIT 4:

   State 1
  State 1 to 2 to 1 transition
   State 2
State 2 to 3 to 2 transition
  State 3

The yellow pieces are like powerful enegy blade sort of things, btw. So what do you think? I'd like some heavy C+C. If theres no real problems I'll go ahead with animating, thanks in advance



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Looks sweet. Seems like you got the hang of the angle and the light source is perfect imo. I use Graphics Gale for animations :P Pretty easy program to follow.

awesome, love it how you made the two top panels on the ship seem sloped using shading :) great job

Hehe, thanks dude. I sort of lucked upon that sloping when I was fiddling with the shading early on and I was like "ooh that makes them looked sloped, I think Ill keep it ".

Hehe alot of mans worst inventions are by accident too

Another update. Working on the transition animations now, phew, pumping them out...

Another update, completed the other transition animation, this was quite a fun one to do. Once again, crits a very welcome. 

I love these. :O
I made a little shoot-em-up mock-up and made little animations for it but they certainly weren't on this level.
The only thing I can suggest is to make a state 1 to state 3 animation unless you have to cycle back and forth through them in order.

Thanks ryan! It's a real pleasure to have such a compliment from yourself


Hmmm, I was thinking about that. At the moment I just have it play both transitions right after eachother, which is like 18 frames or something...But I'll consider it, hell more opportunity to do cool plane transforming is a gift horse I dont look in the mouth.


I really really hope I keep momentum on this project. I've got someone else I'm working on it with, and this is like my first proper recreational team project so who knows maybe I'll actually see this finished. How its planned its a looooooong winding treacherous mountain road of pixeling to the top, hehehe.

I think I know what you mean about the lighting. Do you mean specifically the right wing during the middle of the animation or both wings towards the end of the animation?


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I love them.

Very nice work...

It remembers me of old school fabulous games... Ahahah nostalgia...