Games Dev: Unit 1 & 2: 2D Animation

Task 4

For this task i had to make a variation of animations. There where 12 rules for animation. They made the animation feel more realistic and alive. They where:

Squash and Stretch
Anticipation
Staging
Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose
Follow Through and Over Lapping Action
Slow In and Slow Out
Arcs
Secondary Actions
Timing
Exaggeration
Solid Drawing
Appeal

The animation i had to make included;

Death Sequence.
Explosion.
Walking.
Running.
Jumping.

To be able to do this i need a Tile-set of a sprite doing the action. I decided to download one of Pikachu from spriters-resource.com . The tile-set was good because it had every animation i needed to make except for the explosion. So i used the same website to download a tile-set for an explosion animation.

In the making of the Animation i used the software Photo-shop. The way i made the animation was not the most efficient way to make animation. I had to copy and paste each tile individually into one new Photoshop project then i had to use the timeline feature and create a new frame by showing the next layer and hiding the previous. I sometimes also had to expand the canvas so the sprite would get cut off when i pasted it in the new photo shop project. When creating the animations i had to get the delay right for every frame. The delay stayed at 0.2 seconds for most frames however it was 0.1 seconds for some and other animations had a mix between 0.2 and 0.1 seconds. The jump animation for example, i had to decrease the delay a little bit when Pikachu was going into the air.

These delay setting made Pikachu Jump made the jump more believable. I noticed that it wasn't necessary for all delay to be the same. So i made changes to the delay for every animation so it would be believable. This are the delays for all the Other Animations.

Now all the animations are done i put them into a game-maker room. where all the animation would be looped. Game-maker made the animation faster than they were i had to reduce the frame per second from 30 to 10 so it would normal.

Here are all the animations.