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This week I have been tasked with making the animation for the baked potato explosion. The baked potato is a power-up in our game, it is just a potato with a stick of dynamite in it, but it sure is effective at taking down 1920’s biplanes.
The reason why I was tasked with this is becuase, well, we needed an animation for this and I chose to do it.
Making the animation was not difficult, but since I am supposed to write four houndred words about it, here is a detailed explanation:
To start making this explosion I had to know the size of the explosion itself. I roughly found out the perimeters of the sprite by placing the baked potato projectile in the center of a normal sized photoshop file and then resizing it to what looked like a viable regular dynamite-in-potato explosion.
Before I started painting this explosion I chose the same brush that had been used for other explosion animations in our game, so that it follows the same artstyle, it is called Cloud Sheer Shard and you can only have it if you download a special paintbrush pack that is filled with goodies. Tell me if you want it.
After this I made the first frame of the explosion and I made that one yellow and orange.
I then made the second one, which I made bigger with a dab of white and now introducing the black as the smoke.
I continued expanding the circle of white, yellow, orange and black as well as adding particle effects to make it cooler.
Now after frame four the explosion itself is gone and we are left with nothing but smoke and mirrors, without the mirrors.
The smoke puffs out and also grows a little bigger in a frame or two, then it puffs out into small mushroom shaped clouds that vaporate and disappear.
I wish I could tell you more on how I did it, but it is only three colors, 11 frames and the same brush for everything, I even used the brush for the eraser, because that did not ruin part of the explosion when I had to erase things. Also, ‘glue it’ is still an awesome program and it countinues to help me with sprite sheets, so I recommend it.
Im am overall happy with how it turned out, real nice lookin! It really captures the essence of a potato blowing up a biplane 200 meters up in the air in the 1920’s rural America.
– Sakarias ‘Rostfritt’ Ståhl
 
About Sakarias Ståhl
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