You could try to convey a bit more force with the animations. Try making the wrist rotate outwards and then inwards, same with the fingers. It'll give you a much clearer sense of force and action. Don't be afraid to exaggerate the animations a bit, its easier to tone down than it is to tone up as I've learned

Fluidity is a thing I've struggled with for a long time, but I think that just comes with practice. Try to stay away from linear movement, I find it helps it make things look less robotic.
And exaggerations are good. Go ham yo!


Try to put a bit of bounce in the legs. Kinda looks like it's dry humping something right now. (Just an observation, don't hurt me lmao)
Attention to the back leg in particular would be good I think.


+1. Literally naught to complain about. :D
Edited by Spartan314 on Nov 22, 2014 at 04:49 AM

Sorry altis, I'm a copycat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OP2c5DVnFA

Watch a few teh lag vids and some stuff from IMBROKERU.

I won't link you, if your passionate enough in wanting to upgrade your anims I doubt it would inconvenience you to open up your web browser and type either:

Imbrokeru fp animations tutorial

teh lag cmt animation tutorial set

Passion is something I lack. It's basic enough and gets the point across, and besides that I'm too lazy to learn how to fp animate. :)

Unless someone wants to volunteer to remake a melee, idle, and moving animation for me, I think it'll be staying as is.

Edited by raffgie on Nov 22, 2014 at 05:55 AM

Ah yes, the good old programmer art. Good enough for demonstration.
Here's some of my amazing sprite-work, from an old project:

I did the carrot, the hoe(as in the tool...), and of course, the glorious character and growing crops growth-stage artwork.

With a few graphical upgrades it may be dlc storm within the smartphone game app network.

It looks pretty good. Reminds me of older Harvest Moon games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uqrVFXcOck

i couldn't get this ingame no matter how many times i fixed it so here's a rendered thing of it in 3ds max

NO URL JOKES.
Edited by Vergil on Nov 23, 2014 at 06:17 PM

EDIT: pic for those who don't like shakey footage

Edited by Vergil on Nov 23, 2014 at 08:06 PM

That looks elegant. The shaky footage wasn't that bad I can see the footage.

It looks rather small, and you really should try to go through in a logical order, and not just move the camera all over the place like that.

Looks nice though.

Should've added a chief for scale.

He's about as tall as that weird indent on the slanted wall next to the glass

May I suggest a banana for scale, much more accurate standard unit of measurement.

I've been remodeling Whomp's Fortress from Super Mario 64 to get it into Halo.

Not really Halo, but some work in progress for University assignment.


Edited by OHunterO on Nov 25, 2014 at 06:44 PM

I know it is WIP but I do want to mention that your ripples in the clothing look pretty obviously fake. If you had a) variation in size or b) had them continue through areas like the belt it would look more natural. I know that might be a paint because you'd have an outcropping/fold go under a belt. Also the back of the Warlock's head looks rathre flat but I don't know if you plan on adding more to that.

Otherwise that is absolutely gorgoues

Yeah, creases need re-doing as was just testing things. Also not done the back of his head yet, and obviously his legs aha

Very nice. Is this a custom design?

I'm a bit more concerned with the length of those fingers. They look really stubby for having hands that big. Also, you could probably make the folds in the cloth look nicer if you pulled the geometry out a bit, and then pinched it near the center while smoothing out near the ends

Also not Halo-related... apologies to those who care :p
Having some fun with testing physics, making a big mash:


[assets have sloppy materials and are all subject to change]

#teamficus

It will never look as good as Cryengine 3.

I don't want of this engine if it's unable to generate errors for no reasons.

@Hunter it would look better if you made appearing stitching on the... stitched parts
Edited by bourrin33 on Nov 26, 2014 at 09:57 AM

Is it supposed to look a lot like sapien?

I shamelessly created my "gizmos" in the image of Sapien's...I liked them so why not :-)
And the interface is partially inspired in style by both Sapien and Cryengine.

best bsp ever

Not enough mesh density as forgot to do something I was supposed to and can't be bothered now. Looks fine like that, won't really see stitches on the texture.

They are custom, made by Higuy...but they'll most likely be used in some form ingame.
However, when I was working with Cryengine3, I used this alpine asset pack, which you should enjoy too:
http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=310&t=76283

Cheers

That's pretty neat. I hope this engine one day gets fully released. Looks like something I can use without fully stressing out like other engines.

I'm glad I'm not the only one using CAD rather than illustrator... :P

Really nice job.

Sweeyt jawb.

not halo 1 -y enough

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Cheers