Final Fantasy Hacktics

Vanya:
Yeah it took all of thirty seconds to remove the stasch haha. The colors for the hood and chin strap took most of the effort.

Ryonin:
Heck yeah now that is the kind of constructive criticism I have been looking for. Great suggestion about the dipping at the full stride, and I will definitely be keeping your other comments in mind as I continue forward. Hopefully I will have another preview soon, maybe later tonight.

Kenshin:
What is this toad you speak of? I think anything with movement in a static screen just automatically really sucks in your attention. I used to think everyone's fixation on Argg's avatar was the boobs, but now I think it is just the cyclical animation. Sorry that probably wasn't the reaction you were looking for, but I'm a psych guy so that is how I think about things haha.

hypno toad isnt that futurama?

Okay well here is another preview, but I think I have gone a little over board and now he is just kind of wriggling.

Quote from: "Zozma"hypno toad isnt that futurama?

Yeah, its a toad that has hypnotic eyes, all you need to do is look at him and you are under its spell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypno_Toad#Hypnotoad

Okay everyone I need some advice. I just can't figure out what to change in the walking animation? Is there something wrong with the leg motion (I feel like he almost looks like he is high kicking)? I think I'm going to test him in game to see how it looks compared to other sprites, advice is always appreciated though.

I see no problem with it. It looks fine to me.

The only thing that look odd is the couple of dark pixels at the far right of the arm and leg that look like they are appearing and disappearing.

i would think it should look fine in game, have you already tried it?

Yay for the weekend and hopefully some time for more spriting. Here is a quick look at similar palette options for the female hooded figure. I can't remember if BP wanted the female person to actually be Rofokare or just use the same sprite, so I'm posting this to see what he thinks of the different colors.

Next is to test Hooded Man in game and continue tweaking his walking animation.

I was thinking something more like the attached. Please forgive how rough it is; it's only meant to illustrate the leg movement and corresponding downward motion of the body.

That's the ticket! that looks much more natural!

It does look much better. I'm not completely sure about the bobbing, but it is worth testing out. I have also been thinking of greatly reducing the movement of the arms, because it doesn't make much sense if they are covered up. It would make for a more ethereal feel to the character too. Great advice and I will definitely use your sketch as a base for the legs to see how it turns out. Is that an actual drawing or did you use some weird filter?

All of the other sprites bob, though. It doesn't look quite right in my example, since it's only three out of the five frames the rest use.

I sketched it out with a tablet. It started out as using the pink over a the stationary sprite, as it would stand out. I didn't like how that looked, so I just traced over the rest of it and removed the original.  Shrinking it by 50% helped hide some of the sketchy-ness.

I think the middle one will work the best.

Sorry for the delay, I haven't been around FFH as much lately! I'll email you sometime, when I get a chance, to let you know what vague ideas I had for her.

This wedding is getting closer, plans are getting chaotic and family drama is erupting all over! Some are already prepared to draw blood.

Three more weeks until the happy day, and then there will be real war..

BP: No worries I know things are getting nutso for you haha. Yeah I'm liking the black, I will make some adjustments so it goes a bit better with the under skirt.

Ryonin: Cool, I really should make use of my tablet more often. What I'm noticing as I'm working on this is that I just need to really tone down the amount of motion happening. The robe is just too bulky and shouldn't show much movement. Your sketch is still really helpful though and I'm hopefully at least getting the movement of the fabric better even if it isn't quite as exaggerated. My current version does have the bob. I will probably post a preview in a couple hours or sometime today.

Holy... I just tried to think and put myself in your shoes

man if I was getting married any time soon... I'd be freaking out, like epic drama lulz


then again I'm only 22 I don't see myself marriage anytime before 30 lul

I'm 25 now, and I've been with her for nearly 5 years (the wedding date is also our anniversary). And we've been engaged for 2 years. So I'm not freaking out about getting married because it's been a long time coming, we already know exactly what we're getting into and, honestly, neither of us see the wedding as some HUGE CHANGE. We'll go right back to spending our evenings as the "boring married couple" we've always been--watching movies, playing with our cats, blackmailing our neighbors, starting small fires, drinking and wrestling.. All in all, a tax break and the chance to take care of us BOTH with one health insurance plan--those are the only real changes.

It definitely does sound like you have a good thing going for you Bastard and doing things intelligently. Oh my gosh what I wouldn't give for 2 years to plan the wedding haha, I have 9 months

Okay here is another walking preview (I know they used to be cool and now they are getting kind of lame lol). But trying to tone down the amount of leg motion. What do people think? I will only be adding in barely any arm and hood motion. Hopefully the next preview will be a video preview, if I can figure that stuff out.

EDIT: Hmmm okay so I'm thinking the left leg is looking good. I need to work on the right though (I just like talking out loud).

Agreed. Is that 3 frame bob or 5 frame bob? it isn't fluid yet bet there is definite improvement.

thats awesome now I wish I had a gf once again