Whip it good!

This is pretty much my process for doing the sketch for an animation. Probably gonna be changing a ton of stuff as I go about rendering it, cause I always do, but that's how I work. The sketch is just there as a base, nothing set in stone.

Now I'm off watching BJ Penn getting his as kicked in UFC 94 :C Fuck you GSP, fuck you. Talk to you guys later, byeezzzzz!

WHIDEE-HOEEEE!

New video, aw yeeeeaa!



Ended up with two different versions there in the end, but we chose to go with the less meaner looking one. Since this guy is goign to be hanging around in the earlier parts of the game as well, we figured we didn't want him to be too intimidating. We're saving the bad ass one for his more dangerous counter part you'll bump into later in the game though!

We had our first meeting in like 2½ months today, over a few burgers. Went great, even though a lot of stuff had to be pushed forward until next week. Still a few of the overwhelming amount of question marks got cleared out!

In other news, school seems to start out rather chillaxed. One course here at campus and one distance course. Hopefully neither of them will take extreme amounts of time and we'll be able to put most of our focus on Grindea! Pumped!

Now, time to sleep. Somehow, I've manged to end up with an even more brutally raped sleeping schedule than usual. Even though I actually tried (and succeeded) to fix it just a few days ago. Oh well. UFC and morning sun are the best conditions for resting anyway. Bye fags!

VIDEOOO TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMEEEEEE!

Ok, somewhat lack of updates the last few days. Been trying to fix my totally fucked up sleeping schedule with somewhat minor success. Woke up at 23:30 yesterday so, yeah.
Also, I went to the doctor the other day to check some stuff out. As always, I left just as clueless as when I got there, just a little bit poorer. Ohwell.

So! The video I've been promising is finally here! I had to rework it quite a few times, but it turned out okay in the end I guess. Still not 100% used to speaking english super fluently, but yeah!

So, yeah. If this is something you guys want more of, or if you have like any specific requests of stuff I should show or talk about, let me know in a comment or whatever.

Now, I'm either gonna try doing some more work, or go to sleep. We'll see. Later fuckerzzz!

NPCccCCCCCC heLLL

So I completed this sucker today:



Gonna keep at the NPCs for a while now, so expect more of the same tomorrow!

School starts in like a week and a half and I'm lookin forward to it! Not school it self maybe, even though it's gonna be interesting with a bunch of new teachers and shit. But mostly because the whole team will be gathered at the same place again! Vilya's been gone the entire summer, so we haven't been able to have any face to face meetings. We have a bunch of stuff to discuss and go over, so looking forward to that!
Also, I much prefer working together and not at home by my self. I focus ten times better during "office hours" and gets more shit done. So hopefully I will work just as hard, if not harder when school kicks off, as long as the teachers go easy on the reports and assignments!

Now, time for some UFC and sleep! Byeee!

LEGACY OF CANE!!!!

So today I've been busy working on NPCs for the first village in Secrets of Grindea. Been doing five sprites, all based on portraits made by Vilya. Not gonna be able to show them off just yet, as they don't have any hairdos. Reason for that is that I suck at doing hair, so I'm leaving that in the hands of Vilya.

This is one of the sprites I did that didn't really need much of a hair expertise to get right. Did a walk animation for him just now which turned out pretty cool!



I always get a bit excited when I manage to animate something I've never done before. In this case, I've never tackled a dude with a cane before. Always good to add more stuff to the animating arsenal!

More of the same stuff tomorrow probably! Now, sleeeeep!

SUCCESS!

So, after like a million tries, I actually managed to record that frickin video. I'm gonna edit it down a bit though, it turned longer than I expected. But I'll get on to that tomorrow or something.

Not gonna leave you totally empty handed. Here's a some animations I did a few days ago:

Yes, it's a jumping bag. With a face. He's got a pretty major role in the game, but I'll talk more about that laterrrzz. Now, I'm gonna catch some sleep and watch some UFC. Byyyeeeeeeee!

TWO HANDED WEAPONS!?!? SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!1

So at the moment, I'm workin on some attack animations for our two handed weapons. If you're anything like me, you know that it's super gay to use one handed weapons. Unless it's like some super cool mace or something. But yeah, two handed all the way!
I've added the one handed animation as well so you guys can see the difference in speed.

So yeah. Weapons. We haven't decided 100% on all the different weapon types we want to include yet. So far we only have one handed and two handed, which includes swords, axes, maces etc. There were some early talk about bows and dual wielding, but time will tell what we go for!

Planning on giving the video another go tomorrow. Hopefully it will not turn to shit this time!

Now, I'm going to sleeeeeeep! Tomorrows gonna be pretty sweet. Finals in ASUS Summer 2011 (cs event) plus UFC live 5! There's gonna be a few pretty sweet matches, my bet for fight of the night goes to Miller vs Henderson! But now, sl33p. Night fags!

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So the other day, I actually recorded a video of me doing some animation work. It was like, a good hour of me working and talking about why I do stuff and how I do it. So when I was done recording and were going to save the video, it didn't. And got fucking deleted. So I'm pretty mad about that.

I am going to give it another go, as soon as I'm alone in the apartment the next time. Feels pretty weird just to be sitting around speaking to myself in english, so I prefer doing that when my room mate is not around!



Anyway, here's the animation I did during the recording. It's a fill out animation that's going to be used in cut scenes and stuff to blow more life into the characters. Having just static sprites hanging around tends to make things pretty lifeless and boring. Tiny details like this makes all the difference!

In other news, I went out yesterday with my man Jochen and Tove. Started out at our place with some movies, SNES and lots of alcohol. Ended up in some swings, like 03:00, doing amazing tricks! Also, I managed to pull of a ultra set up I've been practicing in Street Fighter 4, which I don't nail all the often even when I'm not wasted! So that got me pretty (really) excited!

Now, I'm going to sleep. Fuck all you hoes, night guys!

OMGOGMOMGOMG SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE ACTUAL GAME!??!? WTFOMOG

As promised, here's a early video of some gameplay from Secrets of Grindea!



All the music in the video is actually made for the game by our awesome music dude Hampus! So besides awesome graphics and gameplay, the game will feature an awesome soundtrack as well! Hell yeah!

As I said in the last post, a lot of stuff is up for change and a bunch of things are still missing! Most noticeable in this video is probably the complete lack of graphics for the menu. Something we'll fix in the near future!

Also, we have a pretty bad ass crafting system that I didn't show in the video that works like a charm. I figured I'd save that one for when Vilya is done pimping out the menus and all that. So stay tuned for that!

I also plan on posting another video soon of me working on some animations and talking about how I go about things and my process overall. Probably gonna be a pretty long video, and probably will feature a lot of me talking crap. But you'll have to live that!

Now, sleepy time! Tomorrow, more animating, and a visit to the cinema! Bye fags!

No animations, just me talking craPP

Hey faggots!

Kinda debating whether or not I should keep uploading stand alone animations on a daily basis (ok, somewhat daily basis) or go for less updates with ingame videos instead. I finished up the bee dude the other day, beating the shit out of my fatigue and unfocusness (is that even a word?) that I've been struggling with, and he turned out pretty cool! I love posting often and showing all the shit I do here, but I think it's a better way to showcase my work when it's actually in the game. It looks a lot better when it's all put together.
We'll see.

Speaking of videos and shit, we're getting close to the point when we can actually record a half decent video of the game. I mean there's still a lot of features missing and it needs a few more layers of polish, but it's getting there! I'm just gonna clean up a few of the earlier animations I did, adding shadows and shit to them. So expect a early preview of the game in the next few days or something!

Also, we're getting a site for Grindea, and a devblog. Don't know when it will be up, since it's not really super high priority at the moment, but it's in the making at least. I'll post a link once we get it up and running!

On another note, my Street Fighter career is moving forward! I got the game in the mail a few days ago and I've been playing quite a bit! Since this is the first fighting game I'm not approaching with the button mash mentality, it's actually a lot of fun. Really hard, but I'm getting there! So far I've mainly been focusing on learning to executing shit, but I'll soon take my first baby steps to becoming a pro on the PSN! I'll keep you posted!

Now, I'm going to bed. It's like 6 in the morning. Bye ma'machis!

BZZzzZzZzZzzzzz

Last couple of days have been pretty weird. Been feeling super tired and unfocused. I think it's because I've been just sitting around here for so long.
Also, I've been stuck watching Evo 2011. It's like the biggest fighting game tournament in the world. Got so hooked that I actually ordered Street Fighter 4 the other day. I absolutely and totally SUCK at fighting games. But I love competing. E-sports is probably the best thing I know, ever. So I figured I'd give it a try. I'll report back on how my journey to becoming a pro street fighter player pans out!

Oh, and besides that, me and Jochen celebrated Arnold Schwarzeneggers birthday the other day. It was great. Alcohol, bunch of Arnold movies and some Super Nintendo. Hercules in New York was definitely the highlight of the evening!



Anyway. Been animating the bee dude. I have started the attack animation as well and it's turning out pretty sweet. We had to rework the mechanics of how the enemy behaves a bit, which ended up with us adding some extra animations. A bit more work, but it's gonna turn out much more awesome!

I'll try to make the next update a video. Either of me doing some animations or just some gameplay from what we've got so far! Now, sleep. Bye mother fuuckaaaas!