New Commander prototypes

[Iced_Marche]

Well I made Two Commander protypes..'cuse we seriously need new ones becuase the ones we got now suck

First one:




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Second one:



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If anyone wants to give me any ideas ill make them work scince i have flash and im very good at it,((we really need new monsters and commanders ect ect...))

[ultswordsman]

red one nice but i dont like how he moves

[Iced_Marche]

lol ya, I dont like how he moves either but bleh, I could make him wakl normal, or just about anything else

[Iced_Marche]

I know thier alittle, animeish but they are prototypes i got like..lots more o.o;

[Iced_Marche]

Added this one today...mmm big sword goodness o_o

[Iced_Marche]

Red commander another version of it, sorry if its kinda scratchy it got hard becuase im working with a black backround insted of a white one.

[TheMcCool]

They're pretty cool, and I like the style, but could you post them all in normal size and make sure they're 32X32 pixels?

[The_Gu3st]

I like em but they dont match what-so-ever with the ingame commanders and you cant start commanders out with any sort of wepon. Besides, didnt parsley already take care of em???

[TheArbiter]

I like them.....but they neeed to be 32x32
I learned that the hard way too
...."idk if yours are....but they dont look like it"
the animations are cool tho 

[matlu]

hm, they look too good, like they were taken from some other game

[TheArbiter]

I was thinking the same thing......maybe hes just that good......

[matlu]

don't know, this red guy looks more like Robin Hood, definitely not suitable for Cyber Battles. 

thing......maybe hes just that good......

hm. Maybe. But in this case.... what the hell is he doing *here*? :p

[TheArbiter]

Lmao
i dont know
maybe hes expecting pay?
i send in my graphics cus i have nothing else to do at 2 am
well....i could sleep.......i guess
plus this is good practice for a career i hope to get a job in someday...."computer animation"
i dont have much for resources tho....iam on a pc wit a broken mouse and only art program i have is paint
guess its better then nothing though lol
"p.s. maybe his graphics would be more suitable for your rpg thing??"

[matlu]

"p.s. maybe his graphics would be more suitable for your rpg thing??"

the graphics for that rpg thing will be a bit complicated. The player characters will have to be created as "paper-doll" if you know what I mean, there will be many different layers, base body, leg armour, body armour, head cover, weapons etc. and each layer will have to be drawn separately. It is necessery in order to be able to replace your weapons and armour and have differenr sprite for each combination.
Non-player characters will be simplier, but still each monster will need several phases, from several angles (front view, side view, back view, and also view from 45 degrees).
Just have a look at RS 1 and think about what was necessary to achieve it.

[Parsley]

Ignoring the fact that these do look ripped off a japanime RPG...

Remember that when you animate, people are going to be looking at these for a fairly long time, so the movements have to be something that won't irritate people off after several hours of staring at them.

What I've found that works & doesn't:
- Don't move body parts too much, as it looks highly repetitive after a while.  Same goes for sweeping weapon movement.
- Mechanical parts moving or changing colour works very nicely
- Blend/smudge animation allows for ~50% more movement than a raster/cell animation (changing the actual position of the moving item); looks a lot less jerky.
- Minimalise every animation to it's bare essentials; I'm not very good at doing this yet...