The end is near

The project is getting close to the end but that has not changed the amount of work I have to do. I still have a lot of animations to do. The attack animations for the children and the strafe animations for the player characters is what I am doing right now. I am also making a hover effect for the menu buttons.

I find it difficult to make good strafe animations. No matter what I do it ends up looking weird but I will figure it out at some point, I hope I will at least, hopefully I will figure it out soon.
The attack animations for the children should not be too difficult to make. It should basically just be a sort of swing animation for their arms and I will probably make the same animation for all the children, just to get most of the work done quickly so I can start polishing all the sprites and animations.

I changed the color of the sponges from green to yellow because we got a lot of people saying it looks like you are shooting a laser rifle in game. I added an animation to the sponges to make it look like the sponges are wet so it does not look like you are shooting yellow bricks at the children. 

A “muzzle flash” animation has been added in the form of soap bubbles bursting out of the muzzle. This is also to make it look more like you are shooting sponges and less like you are shooting bricks.

I am working on a steam animation for when the pressure-meter reaches its max-level. This steam animation will be applied to the player character. The steam will blast out from the rifle and the backpack. I still have to do a lot of work on this particular animation and also run it by the team before we can implement it.

I was asked to make a mockup for the upgrade screen to be implemented in the design document. As I was working on it I had most of the team in the same room to approve each little change and addition to it so I did not have to make changes to my work in after hand.

I designed the Nubb Tubb, or Water Balloon Launcher if you would like, to be added to the design document. 

To end this post I would like to say that we have had a lot of fun during this project. We are almost always working together till late at night and have a lot of fun during our meetings.