#makapixel process

1. In context rough drawing

2. Move drawings to center

3. Filled with solid color/tie down drawing

4. Fully colored/Final(This takes the longest)

Spent more time on this than I thought was required but I couldn’t get some things working just the way I wanted. A lot of trial and error before I got to the finished product. 

This is basically the first animation I’ve finished using ASEPRITE. It’s come a long way but now I can finally switch from Graphics Gale.

Sooo I’ll break down my thought process for the animation step by step.

Version 1: I came up with an idea for how I wanted the idle to work. (I’m a big fan of energetic dancey style idle anims) I moved pieces around until I was satisfied with the general movement. At this stage it’s really messy but I can read it and get a feel for whether or not I can move on to version 2.

Version 2: I literally put another layer over my super rough animation and traced it so that it was more tied down(cleaner)

Version 3: More effort spent cleaning up the animation. The first thing I did at this stage was to fill in the colors bit by bit. I started at the shoes and worked my way up. I find that this is better than coloring a whole frame and then moving on. I think it’s better to work in layers.

Version 4: At this stage I had to go in and carefully hand pixel each little anti-alias pixel so that it matched the finished model. Also you’ll notice that the other version are flickering. This is because in version 4 I added more frames to smooth out the motion. The head, scarf, and gun were particularly difficult. The last bit of work I did on this piece was make the gun spin. I thought that was a nice touch.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun working on this. This animation will help set the standard for the rest of the games animations.

I made my first post! Hoorah! Link is here 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/2894484 But it’s also here (below)