spine users

After finding a favorable review to our old game called Glow on the RPGMaker forums so me and my friend’s were motivated to rework the project. This is technically our third remake of the game so far.

Character Revamp

Below are some new sketches of the improved design.

We decided to redo the character designs based on the original. Our first iteration of the game was completed in a month which didn’t give us much time to create polished assets. Not to mention it was my very first game sprite project.

Ver 1. - trad animated in flash

Ver2. - first foray into spine software 3 years ago

Current redesign  - spine attempt #2 yay

Rigging and Spine

I haven’t used spine in forever so I’m attempting to relearn the program along with all the new features. It’s very exciting. Figuring out the rigging in is going to be hard trial and error since it’s not a humanoid character. I wanted to experiment with IK’s for the tentacles and a squash and stretch rig I saw by nyenna.

Some progress after about a week of fiddling around. I didn’t expect the learning curve with reorienting myself with the program to be this high. But at least I got it down more or less. Need to figure how to stretch them out or if maybe i can use a better system for the tentacles.

1) Need to play around with the skin weights more

2) Create a controller for the head rig

Got to make it worrrrrk IK + path

1) IK handles seem a bit too restrictive, will see if i can make it flow better?

2) Figure out how to make it stretch?? (Did I miss a step?)

3) try a different rig with just turning off inherit rotation

Get a very old sketch idea. something I thing in do using Illustrator and learn more about vector, early 2016. never finish it. and this days I got it back on photoshop and just paint. how now I use a lot of selection keeping each part in a different layer, I took it to Spine to animate. =D