NEPETAQUEST 2011 Thread 4: Oh god, the quadrants!

[kayak]

Umm sorry to interrupt the current discussion but here are some things.

Equius' sprite was making me the sad so I tried to fix it up. I'm not the best at fighting stances so I'm still fiddling with it. (Old on left, mine on right)


In regards to only partial role-playing in the Hearts boss battle, I thought maybe Nepeta begins sparring with Terezi, but at a certain point, Terezi feins being critically wounded and calls upon a "dragon" to help her. This could either be her donning her cloak or maybe even bringing out a Scalemate. Then I tried drawing both of those ideas for fun because dragons be cute.

GO PYR4LSP1T3! M41M TH3 1NTRUD3RS! H3H3H3

Zerovirus, I liked your Terezi animation! Very fluid. Are you going to include Terezi using her sword cane too? I thought it'd be funny if she got like three different weapon usages out of her cane. If you've already got all her moves planned, though, then NEVERMIND.

If there are no further comments on my Kanaya and Tavros sketches, I can begin to convert them to sprites. Does this accurately portray how big the shopkeeper picture needs to be? Or does anyone have a better mock-up/size approximation? ALSO: which side should they be facing? (since Kanaya is one of the non-symmetrical trolls)


@sC (or anyone else): Are there still problems viewing my pictures? I've never had trouble with photobucket before and I like having all my files in one place (I lose track of things pretty easily ._.) but I can switch to another host if need be.

[VeritasUnae]

If we absolutely must use an astrological symbol (which I don't think we do, considering the Architect had no relevance to Earth's creation and that's the only reason why the signs match up), then I guess I'd like the Opposition one? I'm personally fond of a geometer's compass as a symbol.

Well, that's why we went with angular astronomy symbols. General people won't know about it. it is not directly related to the zodiac like the other trolls and you can draw the connection yourself with the back knowledge you provide, which serves as a nice parallel (read it is not a direct relationship) between him and the troll's symbols.

[Geekthras]

So last night VeritasUane and I got around to getting soundclouds. Whoever else has one, could you link it so I could follow?

[Zizzo]

Oof! Finished the first cleaned up version of Karkat's first attack. No idea what this looks like animated and the penultimate two frames obviously need some rejigging, but I'll have a go at that after my eyes recover from squinting so much at MS Paint.

[8oy Skylark]

I might have done it a bit fast, he looks like he's spazzing. And I took barely any frame adjustment.

But it does show you how he looks animated.

[Snuffleheim]

It looks great, animated, to me. Although you definitely did it too fast. The one problem is that he isn't actually crossing the distance between himself and his enemy, unless that's a separate animation?

[Zerovirus]

as a quick note, the left foot is supposed to be the weight-retainer; ie, the left foot does not move while karkat slides his right foot around. also, the motion-trail really shouldn't have that dark stuff in the middle; the dark part of the motion trail should be the back of the trail so that one can tell which part is more recently left by the scythe and what's the older part of the motion.

@snuffleheim: yeah the crossing-distance will be a different animation

[8oy Skylark]

Like I said, I didn't really do a lot of adjustments. I copy-pasted the frames together and lined up them on your groundline and that's pretty much it.

[Geekthras]

Podcast recording is over. We had SC, Zerovirus, 8oy Skylark, and myself attending. Expect it tomorrow.

[kgy121]

Awesome. Can't wait for the link.

[OrangeAipom]

blah is it any better

[8oy Skylark]

... What am I looking for. :|

[Zizzo]

Second clean up version:

That should have helped the juddery left foot and the motion trail.

[-Benedict]

crap internet going off in a few minutes
zizzo it's still from the wrong karkat sheet, fix the sickles if you can since they're the most conspicuous
otherwise good work
i need someone to repost the screechbeast overworld so i can work on it after the internet goes
damn netnanny

[8oy Skylark]

[Zizzo]

I used the sheet you linked me to a couple of pages back. I had to redraw some of the sickles myself, if that's what you mean...?

[VeritasUnae]

I didn't know Golbats were coming in.

[Cucurbita]

... What am I looking for. :|

I think she fixed the tail animation.

I didn't know Golbats were coming in.

Oh yes you are surely the first one to make that joke :P

[VeritasUnae]

I wasn't implying I was. (This was the first time I had seen this particular enemy because of my 100 pages missed.)
Here's an mp3 of the recording that they posted up:
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-95164/TS-484175.mp3
It's also on iTunes, eventually.

[Dudemaster47]

Progress on Equius's attack animation: Going smoothly.

[mechanicalProfessor]

awesome work guys, sorry i seem to be nothing but a useless lump right now, I was told my tablet was sent out 3 or 4 days ago, though, so I'll see about getting something done then! also update on the Mesa project in minecraft; progress is good so far. over and gone

[-Benedict]

I used the sheet you linked me to a couple of pages back. I had to redraw some of the sickles myself, if that's what you mean...?

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The sickles are supposed to be short- on yours, frames 2 and 8 have the long-curvy-impossible-to-use sickle, which I'm assuming you redrew. Which was the exact opposite of the point. I don't know quite what you did to the second frame, but the sickle and hand are all reverted.

augh oof trying to not sound negative in morning early is a hard

[Zizzo]

Haha, don't worry about it. Stating it clearly makes sure I fix the right thing. Scythes shortened and hands directly copy+pasted in:


@Dudemaster That looks excellent so far! The hip/leg movement for the kick looks super slick.

[KarateLincoln]

Is the game currently in a whitebox state or are you kinda doing stuff a little at a time all weird? (the latter is more likely given the nature of the project)

[GenetiXientist]

Is the game currently in a whitebox state or are you kinda doing stuff a little at a time all weird? (the latter is more likely given the nature of the project)

We're doing things in order, but slowly. Right now, we need overworld sprites. In addition, we need some animations.