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.

Lol thanks guys. And id just like to point out that the back legs were purposefully un-edited before >.<

I like the spring idea, if everything else goes to pot i shall have a go at that.

- UPDATED!

I went with Blicks idea and the result is still awkward but quite satisfying. Sort of reminds me of a dog. A stupid metal dog with a cannon on its nose.

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.

Shark, that idea is the shizz, ive done the collapsing animation and am now onto doing some sort of puff of dust where it sort of... 'evaporates'...

And no problem Spriggan. The skating idea is interesting, but im not sure it'd work.

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!

I know its probably not realistic, but like the idea of it having a forcefield that once is depleted (like health) he wouldnt be able to stand the pressure, blah blah etc of the planet and break-up/decay in random silly places. Then of course, to aid the fantasticalliness of it, it would dissapear in a puff of dust and smoke.

But thanks for pointing it out leel ^.^

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.

I thought the jumping one was going to mount the running one.

Anyways very cool, theyre should be a cowboy riding the buckin' one!

P_O, you dirty boy you... and Souly, that's definetely in the making ^_^

Pah, so what are people's views on this?...


i realise there needs to be movement in the body but i tried and it was too drastic...

http://inframan.deviantart.com/ - http://inframan.deviantart.com/

Check his gallery, there's a robot near the beginning that might prove a decent source for pretty much all of this character.

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.

The back leg closest to us bumps down, then back up as it goes backward. Maybe it should stay down.

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.

Yup Setzer, there was a problem with the back left leg in that it twisted the wrong way. Fixed that now. Also calmed down the barrel bob. And for shark, took out the random snap.

^_^

Lol, thanks again shark.

And ok, so that's basically finished now (if there are still things you think should be changed please do say) so i'm gunna start moving on to a very simple taking damage animation. Shouldnt take long.

In the meantime, what are you guys' ideas on enemies for this game? I've gotten very lost for original ideas.

 <- is all i've got so far. In some respects i like it, in others i think i could do better.

I pretty much want the exact same thing as shark.
Except you need some kind of... Laser Crotch Robot.

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Nah, i dont think i'm up to laser-crotch-robot standards yet. And MurrMan, that could work, but there arn't many frames and i think if i tried to do that there would be two jolts rather than a 'bob'.

You guys can expect long armed freaks of robots, some tank thing with around 5+ different cannons and a centipede-like mech. Maybe something cunning that flies too.

Also, i might be editing the walking animation so it rocks side to side rather than bobbing, just to see how it looks.

Already done Bifur, already done.  (Wont update yet though)

And yup shark, glad you like it.

Here's a messy idea. Might be usefull.

Krysis, i like those concepts. Sort of mutated looking. I did actually have some sort of idea of it 'evolving' or having some sort of hidden massive cannon or other gadets inside its carapace. Cheers for the added inspiration ^_^

Brian! Thanks alot for taking the time to do all that. It's very useful, and i agree with it all. I will try to edit them when i have the time.

stanloshka, dont really understand you, but you're right that it does look like it's limping. I will keep editing to try and get rid of that.

And to keep this going, here's a WIP of a portrait for the little fellow:


Is it too big? I will probably do one around this size and another a more useable size later. Any other comments on it? I'm quite keen on the pose, and will be making it all dramatic etc. ^_^

And also just a note that there will be aliens and monsters within the array of enemies i have concept'd. RaWr.

The legs look like side views of fat thighs.

Good otherwise, but there are some jagged lines on the top of the orange body.

I got bored of the portrait so i rustled this up:
 dynamic?

Updated the mockup oncemore:
 A step ahead there Bifur.

If you're serious that you won't make this a game, I might just die. >.<

Seriously, though, it has so much potential that it would be akin to a disservice to humanity if no one makes it into a game. I personally would love to at least give it a try if no one else.

Originally posted by Larwick

What Brian said.

 Was bored so made this. Also, tis almost 3am so note the stupid quote. I shall be bedinising now though. Turrah.

It looks awesome, but I think the message box could use a border.

It's all coming out amazing. I love the colors and how everything looks. I'd love for this to be a game. It would look amazing.

 

Ah, something to start the day. Added a border, put the power bar back in, although it would be cropped like this when there is a speech bubble in place. Also edited the background slightly. And on the avatar i rounded the body slightly, although theres an annoying little nook, but owel, and i added the weird thing around the cannon fixture part. Oh yeah, and i made the hole on the end less round.

@ P_O, i'm not actually sure what this would be made with. Why do you ask?

Cheers for the comments peoples.

Yeah, that's true Saiklor, but originally i did actually name it the Rustbug because of the pallette, not the actual character concept. Thanks for the references anyhow, i think it might be quite cool to have a monster with a skin texture like rust...

Update:



The tank is gunna take a while so... say hello to the (most probably) smallest mech enemy. Might make one without a cannon. Anyway, what are your views on the colour scheme? Red and grey... :S And also i need ideas to make it look as menacing as possible... at the moment it sort of looks too cute, if you find rattish robots with cannons on their backs cute...

Played around with the pallette.
I tried a more paleish red so it would match the other pallette you used.

It seemed too bright compaired to the Rustbug so it looked strange.



Blue?

I placed your enemy and my two pallette edits onto one of your mockups.

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Souly you're right, the red i used is too bright. I haven't gone as drastic as yours, but i've lessened the saturation slightly. Now it's more of a 'leather' colour.



Yes i kept the old pallette for when it fires the cannon because the new one hasn't enough contrast, and the old one goes better with the red zap. Re-doing all the reds makes it very dull. And yes, i want the zap red... ^_^

What should this thing be called? Some ideas i have are 'Pest/-bot', 'Pony/-bot'... (yes, i'm a retard, and i like it)... Anything amusing, patronising, cool or mysterious (and of course original) would be cool.

I wrote a quick 'plot' of sorts (it's very lame at the moment, but it works, and will give me something to work with). No one will be able to see it yet though... perhaps.