Animation

In the last post I said I wanted to get some basic animations in the game. My usual tool of choice is Photoshop, which I’ve been using almost daily for over 10 years. However, I haven’t been using the Timeline for animation much, and my plans for creating some quick and easy animations kind of didn’t work out.
So I went off to find an alternative, hopefully something very simple, and ideally free. I ended up getting Sketchbook Pro, as it has a “Flipbook” feature that does exactly what I need!
I tried it out and managed to knock up some really rough animations, which you can see below. They’re a bit janky, and final colours and details are yet to be decided, but it’s fun to see my creations in the game.

Yes, one of the characters is a sausage.
The other is an onion, of course.

There’s a phenomenal amount of work ahead…

Below is my first attempt, but it wasn’t quite the style I was looking for.

Oh, and I’ve just been checking out some amazing artists on Twitter and now have a theory that cat ownership is correlated with artistic talent.

I have a dog.

Date

January 22, 2022

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Previously

Significant Progress! The story was a huge obstacle for me. I struggled to settle on something I liked, which made it hard to develop the player character(s), mechanics,