IndiePub 2012 Winner: Deity!

http://www.indiepubgames.com/news/2012-independent-propeller-awards-winners

The game I animated for won the indie pub grand prize! This is just so wonderful! A lot of hard work went into this game from everyone involved.

Deity Game!

All the in game character animation in the final is mine, the main menu screen animation was done by Ying.

Deity is on Desura.com!


http://www.desura.com/games/deity/reviews

Deity Animation

Here are a few showcases for my work on deity. I chose a few that would look good in this format.

Templar Walk & Run

I had to change the render view because the shield he has is only one sided...so it was invisible from the old camera angle. Haha. Also, it shows the pretty art on it. I haven't gotten the glow to work yet, but I kinda like how this looks now. Anyway, I did both of these animations last night and rendered them this morning.


I also noticed the run is not at the correct speed, it's going rather slow.




Ying did the lovely character art, models, textures, rigging and skinning, I can only claim the animation!

To see Ying's blog click here



www.deity-game.com
To see our game website and the rest of the team

Templar Walk Cycle

Done in 3ds Max

So, as with all of my deity animations, the model/textures were all done by Ying So you should check her stuff out.
For this one, she also did the Rigging/skinning



Deity Game Website

Deity Tear Away Ideas

Thumbnailing some ideas for tear-away sheets for my game team Deity. I want to make more than one with different characters on it. I'm designing a front and backside, and am thinking closeups of characters on the front in full color and on the back, the title, website, and a watermark of the character in a more identifiable silhouette type pose and the character's name underneath

Valkyrie Animations

I need to re-render this out because the compressor washed it out..and I want to figure out what to change about this first before I do..but I was really excited to share.

taking 20 credits, I did about 20 character animations in 2 months for this game. Woo!

So, as with all of my deity animations, the model/textures were all done by Ying So you should check her stuff out.

Deity Game Website

Deity Tearsheet Design

Here's two very rough sketches for the Deity Game tearsheet design... Let me know what you guys are thinking..I definitely want the title on it, is that a good location? should I bother doing the "in darkness" thing? or should i have the arch off screen? adunno, this is so preliminary, so it's the best time for huge feedback.

Diety

Our newly igf submitted game! So exciting! Most of the animations are mine, but I still have yet to redo some of the animations ying did before. I had to work on doing all the animations for the two new characters valkyrie and cleric, as well as begin to replace some of the old animations.


Deity Website

Oh yes, and I finally got to beat the game. Woot!

Some Cleric Attacks

Been trying to push the poses, watch the arcs...it's tough doing so many animations in 2 months. Game is due today! So excited.

It's an isometric top 3/4 viewed game.

Cleric confusion

when the main player seems to "vanish" this is the enemy's reaction...the "WTF" if you will.

Cleric Attack B

Almost forgot to upload this one!

Cleric Attack B

Almost forgot to upload this one!

Run cleric, Run!

I realize the loop is off(there's a jerk) but I can't fix that till everything else is working, or else i just have to keep fixing it every time i make a change..so i wait till the end XD


Same for the walk

Cleric Attack A

A render test to check out this animation for Deity. Wow, only like...4 days to get in all assets! It's crazy thinking I only had a month and a half (ish) to do all these animations for IGF submit date. I feel accomplished.

I want to really put polish on my animations so I can put them in my portfolio, but having to wait till after IGF submission is SAAAAD

Valkyrie_Attack_test

So, I have this action blocked in. I'm kind of seeing it like, when she starts hovering, she grows much brighter for the pause, (as she's charging her lazors) then she releases the energy, which then can do whatever magic attack.
The hard part was designing a generic attack to do different type of spells...so I focused more on building of energy and releasing that energy to do the spell.

Walk/run Test

Just a test to see how it looks. This is just a first pass

Updated Death Animation

I edited this one a bit, fixing the shoulders and adding a bounce. Yay!

Death!

This one was much harder. Still some things to fix, but the basic stuff is in there!