Death

So it is only one week of the project left and there are not much left to do. This week we have discussed what we should lay focus on this last time. So the only animation we do not have made yet is the death animation. We have three ways for the spy and the guard to die: by getting strangled with the garrote, getting hit with a baton or getting shot with a gun. With this we should need one animation for the strangling, one for the one where you get hit with the baton and two for the gun shot. Two because you can get shot from two directions or really many different directions, but all animations should be times two since the guard and the spy would have the same animation for every type of death. Since we only has one week left or really just some days left we decided that we should make the same death animation to all of them.

This animation should be just two frames. One of the frames is the spy or guard supposed to fall or stand on its legs and one of the frames is supposed the guard or spy lying on the floor. So the next thing that got on the discussion list was how the guard or the spy is going to lie. Should it lie on its back, its front or on the side? It was decided that since we are going to use it to every death animation to both the spy and the guard. Since there are differences in the way the guard or the spy falls when killed by the different methods of killing. When the spy strangles the guard it does so by almost dragging the guard backwards there the spy can put the guard on the side. When the spy bashes the guard it is from behind the spy dose so by swinging the baton which means that the guard will fall sideways but partly forward. The same goes for when the guard hits the spy but from any angle. When they get shot the guard and the spy falls the opposite way they get shot so the sideways death animation kind of works.

So to make the work easier we took referents pictures and I started sketching on the death animation. The only thing left was if they should land with their front or back up. It is something we will see how it looks. Here are one/some of the sketches I’ve done.