Welcome to the 61st week devlog for Cosmic Construct. This was a short dev week to catch myself back up to current.
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Animation Practice
While I have done plenty of animated art for Cosmic Construct, most of it that isn't pawn movement is squigglevision animation. Which is more or less cheating when it comes to animated visuals. So I've taken some time this last few days to actually practice the basic principles of animation. I'll probably be doing that this upcoming dev week as well.
I have more than just these examples, but its all the same type of practice more or less.
Happy with this one, all of these animations are 12 frames on 2s. I have to practice animation like this for something coming up, so I hope you can bare with me while I learn how to do that. It's relevant to Cosmic Construct.
This is an example of following paths to have the appearance of bouncing or rolling. Sorry for the poor linework, I'm not really making these for anyone other than myself. Its the motion that is important right now.
Here is me trying to make as smooth movement paths as possible by eye only, without measurement. They turned out pretty well.
This chain pendulum on the right is probably the best flowing animation of the entire collection.
This is redirection and ground impact deformation which I did rather poorly, but its practice.
I did a terrible job with both of these, I just need to get good at doing this prospective and rotation stuff.
Here is a low bounce rubber ball, a high bounce rubber ball, and what was supposed to be a water balloon. It kind of just looks like it is filled with corn starch.
Here is some pure timing practice, trying to get down anticipation before movement. The top is just even time steps and isn't really how things move normally. The middle is inertia, where a mass has to be accelerated before it actually speeds up. The bottom is anticipation movement, which combines inertia with backforce, which is closer to how a car looks when it starts moving.
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A reminder that we will have 3 more dev weeks assigned to Structure Art, even if structure art is not being made. After which development will return to programming add gameplay to start ramping up development.
- Structure Art
This next week will also be shortened to get devlogs back on schedule. I expect it to be released in 5-6 days, aiming for the 21st or 22nd.