This last week I’ve been busy laying the foundation to be able to creating characters. This primarily consists of getting the character’s to be able to dynamically render and animate with customizations (hair, base clothing, etc.) as well as with equipment. We have been contemplating and discussing how we would go about doing this since the beginning and then I found Spriter.
Spriter is a software tool used to create 2D modular animations. This means breaking apart the character into tiny pieces and moving them individually instead of having a static frame. This enables us to create animations with lots of frames and only create the graphics once – making content creation as simple as possible. I will save the remaining details for next week.
Aside from the animations I have begun constructing the UI for actually creating characters. Things are going well and I do not see any reason it wont be finished by next week’s update.
Speaking of UI, my good friend David has officially joined the team. He has been helping out since the beginning and was definitely Crea’s #1 fan. He is a professional web designer/developer and consequently will be focusing on the UI. I’m sure it wont be too long before I am showing off his work here.
Stay tuned!
I want a Link character soon!
This David fellow sounds incredibly sexy.
Beyond belief!