NOTE: IMAGES BELOW ARE LAME AND UNFINISHED.
Scroll through the pages for now to see updates, i'm afraid.

 
'COMPLETED' ANIMATIONS:

Ideas in the works:
- Tiles!
- Light taking damage animation.
- Defence shield animation.
- Fire+Walk animation.
- Updating the running animation.
- Enemy sprites.
- Testing a different walking animation.
- A hover animation.

EDIT: Jump animation added boys and girls.
EDIT: Jump anim - more of a build up before the jump.
EDIT: Running animation added ladies and gentlemen.
EDIT: Death animation added.
EDIT: Walk animation added, still a WIP (as in, more than others) however.
EDIT: Walk animation updated.
EDIT: Firing animation updated, and the quick firing animation has been taken out to be re-done. Also added a mockup.
EDIT: Mockup updated.
EDIT: Mockup updated again and added a dynamicaly posed Rustbug portrait.
EDIT: Updated the dynamic thing, added another mockup (have to edit the older one cus of the background).
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Ok, as you may have already seen i've created this 'character' and wish to animate it to so all the normal things such a sprite would do in a 2d sidescroller. So far i have the attack animations, but now i'm having trouble with a sort of 'run' animation (it's more of a gallop). I didn't start with the walk animation as i think that's probably going to be even harder.

This is what i have so far:

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I'd say the front legs and body were done, but i'm having trouble with the back legs. Being the shape and having the joints etc that they do it's very hard to get it to look good... Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I'll probably use this thread if i have any other issues with any more of the animations i'll be making for this sprite.

Thanks for reading! Wh00t wh00t.
~ Larwick.

Bifur, I do sort of, but i find it quite hard seeing as they're so small and they dont really move so noticably.

Updated with a jump animation. Btw, everything is up for crit really, but i'm concentrating on the galloping one right now.

I was gunna say something else but ive forgotten. Owel, lalalalalaaa.

Thanks for the ideas Blick, they're very helpful.

I'll update as soon as poss.

Cheers shark! I was thinking it could be able to become that 'pod' you were talking about if it wanted to fly/hover a longer distance, so yeah it's a nice idea. And yeah i can imagine a cute swimming animation too ^_^

I'm currently failing a walking animation now. And thinking of what sort of enemies this game could have... wh00t wh00t. A dying animation might be in order soon aswel  Poor lil guy.

Heh, sorry I missed the "it's unfinished" comment.  Anyway, maybe instead of making the back legs spring you could make them skate, not sure if that would work or not but it could look better then the dog skip.

Skull, its a cool idea but if that happened i would have to edit each other animation with a dent (sort of as a level of damage thing) and i dont think im ready to do that yet.

Spriggan, as amusing as the picture i got in my head of that is i dont think it would be very practical ^_^ No wheels for the Rustbug.

UPDATE ^^^^^

yeah, i dont like how it's breaking in random places - it's metal right? metal doesn't just shatter like that, I imagined him just falling apart when rusty - like, the legs would fall to the sides  and then the whole middle would fall to the ground (pretty much in the same way it does now) but the legs breaking doesnt look right..  looks cool, but not quite right, imho.

I like the galloping one!

MurrMan, cheers for the suggestions. I agree the running animation needs more work, and a walk/run-fire animation sounds very good.

Skull, ah yes, good idea. Although i'm not sure how well it would work in a scene with multiple attacks on the Rustbug. Perhaps for a larger weapon against it i could make a knockback and 'dent' animation (such as a boss' supercannon thing), and maybe even adapt the dent to the other animations if i feel like it.

Setzer and Boder, thankyou very much.

Wow yeah, a great find there Saboteur, thanks. Shows that i should most probably be more exaggerative in my animations to get the right point across. And Bifur, you're right there, i shall try even it out a little.

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  How does it look strutting it's stuff? It sort of seems like it's gunna trip up any second... there must be some problems with the speed at which im making each leg move... gaaah! It's too late, i shall retire now and return to this tomorow afternoon ^_^ Please leave your comments.

Thanks guys. Your ideas were taken into account...

There's still something wrong.. i cant quite put my finger on it though.

Hmm yeah, i probably should try that. It'll take a while though >.<

 Little update.