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Hi, my bad for inactivity here!

I've been working on an original animation project. This short will be part of a larger story about crime and debt.

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This is actually a pretty good opportunity to talk about how I choreograph my action scenes with Elster!

In my action animations, Elster is fast and "John-Wicky" (if that is even a real word) because I see it as a representation of the gameplay mechanics that you can do with her in the game. When you play as Elster, you often dodge and juke the enemies, or try to draw them into an attack and circle around them with a well-timed run. She can also melee to a limited extent, pushing enemies away from her with her weapon, and of course kicking them while they are down. My animations represent that sort of movement that she and you would and could do in the game. Of course, it has to be more exciting because it's an animation, so the cinematography makes a point too.

But I make it a point so that she never does anything outlandish. She never kicks or jumps or do backflips or any other elaborate martial arts moves. She is pretty static and grounded, and when attacking usually stays in one spot. I try to represent that too. However, I think the most outlandish offender of this rule was the one with the machete, where she spins and twirls around, but that's also more of a "what if?" scenario, since that weapon never made it in the game anyway.

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