Tuesday, 26 February 2013

First draft

So I choose the paper medium by making the small animation into a flip book style and what I do know now is that I SUCK extensively at drawing lol. And that's just doing stick figures. I tried drawing some poses that my swordsman may be using and hopefully it will convey what my main character will be doing. I will also use the pivot animator to learn how to make my stickman more fluid on paper. The website is as follows http://pivotanimator.net/ . This program allows you to create animations based on stick figures.


 So there will be some change of plans towards my final piece.
For ver 0.1
1) Instead of 4 character classes, I will solely be focusing on getting 1 character class namely the swordsman to be as "believable" as possible.
2) No enemies but instead a wall will replace enemies (Hah)
4) Recreate the fight to be intune with Final Fantasy 7 One winged angel soundtrack
3) Have my fight at least last 20secs of fighting

For the music : I may need to speed up the tempo of the song to match the fight scene


For fight styles i would want my stickman to stick towards the samurai katana types of motion and an example of the fight scenes are as follows starting from 0:18



This inspiration comes from street fighter where the characters will encounter a bonus stage and try to destroy a car


For ver 0.2 (Final)
1) Add in additional things that will signify power
I - Wall has health bar
II- Each hit will slightly decrease wall Hp to indicate the strength of wall
III- Add in special effects when fighting against the wall(eg little chunks of rock falling when wall is hit)
IV-Decorate my sword to look more badass to signify power

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Proposal 1 : Power

To show power I will be attempting to have stickman fights. It will only be a teaser that goes for about less than 30 seconds but I will be showcasing 4 main classes of stickmen fighting, the swordsman, the heavy blade, the theif, the mage. Each one of them will display power through the action skills they will be using to destroy a hoard of enemies in their path. It will be done using 2d and the medium of choice will either be by flash or by using stop motion by paper.
Stickman fights




Swordsman

 During 0:48 I want to use the fencing slashes to rip through enemies.


Thief
During 3:01( the video above) I want the thief to run though enemies appearing at the back and slashes appear on enemies samurai style.


Heavy blade
Taken from the moster hunter series, at 0:14 I want the heavy blader to feel the weight when swinging the greatsword and once it lands I want there to be some rocks and dirt being slashed apart to show that extra umphhh.



Mage

From patapon, during 2:40 the mahopon (magician) will shoot out lighning from the skies towards enemies or call a meteor from above to destroy enemies.