Weekly assignment #4 – Enemy character animations – again.

By: Adam Salonen / March 06, 2015 /
Program: Graphics
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Hello people!

So these last weeks posts will be very repetitive since I will do all I have done all over again. It doesn’t seems to be moving forward and that has put me in sort of a bad mood. This week I was supposed to do the enemy character animations;

  • Enemy walk cycle (character walking around)
  • Enemy flood (character using its water hose to fill up the ground with water)
  • Enemy catch mole (character catching the mole when coming in contact)

The walk cycle has been done plenty times but I had to do it all over again due to the feedback I got. I finished 3 different walk cycles to 3 different versions of the enemy character, but apparently none worked so I had to do it all over again. The flood animation were almost finished when I heard that I had to do it all over again, so basically I have done 1/3 of the assignments I had this week. Oh wait, since I had to do the character all over again, the enemy walk cycle were rendered useless aswell, so I have actually made 0/3 of the assignments I had this week. Bummer.

Anyways I will show you how my last enemy walk cycle went, and explain why people didn’t like it, and I hope I can get some feedback from you all in the comments aswell!

So here it is. With different colors. Why doesn’t this work? Here is what I have heard;

 

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  • The previous colors (red hawaii shirt) didn’t match with the overall art style of the game.
  • The shoulders are too broad
  • The high pressure water gun looks like an ice hockey stick.

The two last mentioned combined made alot of people mistake the character for an ice hockey player. Now we cant have that, especially in a game that is played in a garden, summer time.

What I have heard from this last one (haven’t gotten so much feedback) is that the head is too big, and the shoulders are now TOO thin. I personally dont see it and I am kind of happy with how it turned out.

Although I am not a reliable source since I have been working on this for almost 1 ½ months, so I believe I am not seeing clearly right now.

So I am turning to all of you! Please give me some feedback on the enemy character. Is his shoulders too thin? (he is supposed to be kinda skinny). Is the head too big? Does the water gun look like an ice hockey stick? Does the character look like an ice hockey player? And if you agree on any of these points, how can it be improved to be a gardener and not a canadian ice hockey player? (Yes someone uttered those exact words).

Thank you for reading, and I am hoping for feedback!

Until next time, take care!

Adam

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