Hello all! It’s no secret that we’ve got animations buried all over the place. WIP animations over here, uncomplete animation sets over there, and some oldies back behind the woodshed. As the animation tends to be the most time consuming portion of creating the artwork, it goes without saying that we should avoid doubling up. We need a place to keep track of it all. Oh, and somewhere to put those tricksy little animations that kind of, but don’t reeeaaally belong in the Jungle thread. In reality, frogs and jungles aren’t mutually exclusive things. And so, behold! The OPP Animation Thread! Here we can take completed art from other threads and bring it to life! Or, if you’re so inclined, create something new and animate it. Share your WIPs and lay claim to the pieces you plan to animate!

Below is an index of the which animations are needed to get a fully functional sprite. There are also a few animation templates. These are by no means a required base to build from, but merely a handy resource to save time on some of the more repetitive things.

Technical Requirements

• Typical size: 64x64 (feel free to make smaller or larger characters)
  
• Animations run at 8/100 seconds per frame (12.5 FPS)
• Typical walking animation consists of 8 frames

Character Animation Templates

More animation templates will be coming in the near future, so keep an eye out!


Walking - (Links to download layered .gal and .psd files to come)

Playable Character Animation Index
Basic

• Idle
• Run
• Attack
• Interact
• Jump/Fall
• Take Damage
• Die

Additional

• Walk
• Talk
• Prolonged Idle

Passive NPC Animation Index
Basic

• Idle
• Walk

Additional

• Talk
• Environment Interactions
• Additional Idle Variances

Enemy Animation Index
Basic

• Walk/Run
• Attack
• Take Damage
• Die
• Jump/Fall

Completed Animations
The following are a handful of completed animations that can be used as reference or inspiration. More can be found on the OPP Wiki Sprite Page



Edited by Noburo - 11 June 2015 at 4:43am

Cool! I've been waiting for this post!

Some requests:
Frog jump animation can be recolored to the other two versions

These guys could use NPC animations


I've animated this idle animation, and I'd like him to be a hero for the game version DDR is working on, so I'll get started on a running animation too!




Edited by Hapiel - 07 May 2015 at 8:53am

I'll try and contribute!
Great running animation,

Edited by Motrox - 12 May 2015 at 5:53pm

I still need to change the hands in the idle, but here is the running

Nice! I am happy you brought it to life :D
There should be 0.08 sec delay between frames. Every software displays this differently ;)

Somehow it looks a bit like it is stomping on the floor, which I tried to fix but I failed.. :(

New idle animation with better hands:

Wanted to animate the chest from the cave-set since it looks so good :) Did one with and without the lock.

Kazen :D I somehow missed the girls animations, which are excellent. I really like the Chest too, particularly how the lock falls off. Great work man.

You are off to a great start with that animation! The hard work is out of the way, but I may try and tweak a couple things this weekend. There are a few parts that seem a bit clunky, mostly with the hands and torso, but that will come down to tweaking a few pixels to smooth it out. Hopefully I will have wrapped up several other pieces I have been working on that I can post at the same time. :)

Alright, so I've tried to fix some of the issues with the animation. adding some movement to the arms and more tilt to the foot on in the back. haven't done anything to the torso, don't know what you're suggesting to do with it :)




Edited by Kazen - 21 June 2015 at 1:17am

U are making a metroidvania? or just a platformer?

I am developing a Monkey Char:


I am very satisfied with my first try haha, I thought I would not be able to draw characters and animations.

Please tell me how I could improve it :)

Thanks Jade, your suggestion is a good idea, it might take a really big improvement on the animation, I will fix it and post it here again :)