{"id":439,"date":"2010-11-20T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2015-12-17T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:04:33","slug":"animation-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Animation Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arashi annihilates a kittri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This weekend is entirely focused on completing all of Arashi’s animations, which includes finally completing her attack combos.\u00a0 I hand draw every frame, scan it in, fix the lines (either keeping most of the original drawing or redrawing them with a pen tool), and then shrink it down to the appropriate size.\u00a0 It’s a lot of work, and this is literally the first 6 months I’ve ever animated anything in my life, but I’m really happy with the results – especially with the recent batch.\u00a0 Finally got the chance to show the game in progress to someone other than myself (and you, my readers, vicariously through screenshots), which as a non-RPG fan was a great source of insight on how controls “should” work\u00a0but for the most part it seemed like I was well on the right track to making something special from his input.<\/p>\n

One thing you, my readers, may not know is that I do literally everything for this game.\u00a0 I even write the music – in fact, I think music may be my favorite skill in game development.\u00a0 I know I’m not the most professional or orthodox composer, mainly because I only truly began understanding the concept of mastering in the last few months.<\/p>\n

But that’s what I love about this game; it’s forced me to finally use skills, like mastering, animation, and UI programming, that\u00a0I had been dreading for a decade.\u00a0 I know it’s still a few months off before the real effort behind this game can be appreciated through videos and gameplay demos\/playtests, but it’s going to be worth the wait.<\/p>\n

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