Animated Droid
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Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 5:01am
Topic: Animated Droid
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Subject: Animated Droid
Date Posted: 30 June 2005 at 5:32pm
 --->  original shaded silhouette 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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Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 30 June 2005 at 6:19pm
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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. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date 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. |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 30 June 2005 at 10:14pm
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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. |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 30 June 2005 at 10:43pm
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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 |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 01 July 2005 at 12:17am
| The way it pops out is fantastic. Nice little "snap" to it. |
Posted By: kankki
Date Posted: 01 July 2005 at 2:09am
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But you could shade the legs and the "downpart" of the body. Otherwise I say it's very cool! Keep the nice work up! ------------- Well, duuuh, I can eat spam if I have to! 
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Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date 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 :( |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date 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 :) |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 1:03pm
Nice work, I really like how this turned out  Especially the laser gun popping out. ------------- |
Posted By: Lawrence
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 2:45pm
Here you go ryan: And I must say, it is a splendid animation, good work. |
Posted By: ryan-gfx
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 3:06pm
| Thanks but... It does the trail thing again O_o |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 06 July 2005 at 3:55pm
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done ------------- |
Posted By: MeganClare
Date Posted: 07 July 2005 at 8:21am
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Awesome, love the finished result. Reminds me of star wars :) ------------- 
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Posted By: tommy j4sun
Date Posted: 07 July 2005 at 12:36pm
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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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Posted By: leel
Date 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! |
Posted By: kankki
Date Posted: 10 July 2005 at 2:04am
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Very niceniceniceniceniecnicenicenicenice man! Enic? Icen? Enie?   ------------- Well, duuuh, I can eat spam if I have to!
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Posted By: TACW
Date Posted: 17 July 2005 at 7:06am
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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??? ------------- http://hometown.aol.com/boomerangproduct/myhomepage/index.html"> 
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