BwdYeti

[BwdYeti]

I second guess myself a lot less doing it in 3D first, and it's more consistent. But it's a bit more work to set up (even though I think it's a bit faster overall) and I have to avoid including too many frames (since 3D has full tweening), increasing the amount of work and making it unnaturally smooth. I kinda had trouble with that on the Drifter, Sorcerer I was more careful and made sure to cut out frames I didn't need first.
Overall I think I prefer doing 3D first.

Some things

Eliza, Ilian Mercenary, Lance Lord. Any similarity between her battle sprite and Hawkeye's is, as it turns out, coincidental :x

Apprentice map sprites.

 

[BwdYeti]

And now our third Lord, a Westerner named Tristan.

Redid Centurion to use Axes and Lances (General uses Lances and Swords)

Soldier moving map sprites.

Drifter moving map sprites.

 

[BwdYeti]

Spoiler: Some magic rips from FE, if you care.

Thunder, Elfire, Bolting, Fimbulvetr, Excalibur; top 40 pixels of Thunder I added so it fits FE7x's increased resolution

Elthunder, and Arcthunder. Easiest to do first, since they're relatively simple to animate, just hard to sprite in the first place.

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Fixed up the Phalanx some. The shoulders were terrible before, and the legs needed a bit of fixing.

Phalanx moving map sprites

A bit of an edit to the Brigand. The Brigand animation is surprisingly good for a generic enemy, but the design needed a bit of work.

Witch, and the original from 2+ years ago. lol terrible old sprites. Anyway, another staff user yay.

Added an actually good bow to the Pupil. It looks like a butterfly~

A simple edit I forgot to upload earlier, made the Scout's arms a more correct length. Unarmed pose also included.

 

[Bird Eater]

Holy crapsauce! Those sprites are superious!

But are those thunder animations not just a little... 1Sprite-ish, I mean, that thunder wouldn't be in that position for the whole animation, would it?

Anyway, good luck in your further FE spritiness and FE7X game :D

(I played your demo from another topic... About a month ago...)

 

[BwdYeti]

Well both ones I ripped from FE (Thunder and Bolting) do that, so for consistency I have Elthunder and Arcthunder doing it too.

Yay momentum~
Apprentice, the other sword t0. Would promote to Sword Armor or Sword Mount in a branching system, Isadora only gets to choose Squire.

 

[monkeydlu]

seriously smooth, momentum is fun lol

 

[BwdYeti]

Lazy sword flail criticals are the best criticals.

Male version of http://www.bwdyeti.com/fe7x/classes/tie ... -Lance.gif . Only slightly more than an edit. The major focus was on making the poses somewhat more masculine (less pigeon-toed and such)

 

[BwdYeti]

Will never stop posting

Wanted to make sure the SOLDIERS ARE LIGHT INFANTRY IGNORE THE ARMOR message got through. Kind of an Eliwood/Ephraim/Halb/Myrm mash-up with a nice down-angled stab.

Crit

Spoiler: stick version, if you care

 

[Nolund]

Incredible man...just incredible.

I wish I had animation skills like that. I certainly can't wait to see your ending product for FE7x.

 

[BwdYeti]

This took much longer than I intended.

Phalanx, t1 Axe armor. I somehow accidentally combined the the Great Knight and Lieutenant animations without realizing it, olol

Spoiler: stick version, if you care

 

[BwdYeti]

Suddenly image dump

Changed his pose a bit to be less girly.

Making the Recruit not girly is actually a little fun. (right is the original I mimicked)

Changed Uther's pose, having the sword in front of his legs made overlapping problems with other units' shadows.

His crit is stealing ideas from other classes' animations that I haven't even made yet.

Slight fix on the Apprentice, the downward slash is more eased.

A crit?

Yay avoid frames (Soldier and Recruit have their bases to compare)

Avoid animation more like guard animation.

Spoiler: also FE rips

allow me to move my bowstring through my arm

Removing the screen shakes this guy makes on crit makes it much easier to see what's going on.

(also gif version)
Magic rips whee. Mend, in apng format cause it destroyed the color quality otherwise.

 

[BwdYeti]

No replies ever wheeee

Uther crit finally.
Flying armors yesssss

 

[Sechs]

Very impressive. Uther's animation is flawless; it looks just as if it came right out of the GBA Fire Emblems.
However Isadora's critical seems to be missing some frames. After she spins around, she doesn't seem to even hit the sorcerer at all. I am no expert at pixel art and pixel animations, but I think adding some frames will make the animation seem more fluid. Do you know what I mean?
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Remember, I don't have that much experience with custom pixel work, so take my comment as if it were a grain of salt.

 

[Perihelion]

As always, wonderful animations, BwdYeti. The purple guy is oversaturated, though, and it really stands out from the others.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

I don't think anyone has much to say because there's really not anything to critique about them. They're smooth and really well-done, although yeah, Peri has a point.

This one looks a little weird to me, can't quite pinpoint why...

I think its because the jump looks a tad weak, maybe add a little more thrust?

 

[BwdYeti]

The Phalanx palette is very odd, you're right. I edited Oswin's (FE7) colors to make it, and he has full saturation oranges, so it carried over. The ones actually used ingame are better.

Recruit crit I have little room to work with, since it's an edit and trying to match the original. I think it's fine anyway, the delay adds to the effect.


So here's something.

The Swordmaster Mastery skill, Astra/Meteor Slash/Shooting Star Sword/whatever you're familiar with. 5 hits at half damage.

About half of the frames are taken from the GBA Swordmaster's original attack/crit:

Spoiler

Wow these look terrible on a white background. And then this link to easier to view versions looks the same font as the previous text, okay

Critical version forthcoming; it'll be much easier since I just have to turn the attacks into slashies :3

 

[Admiral David]

those sprites really grow on you, what game are these from yeti??

 

[Bird Eater]

The sprites are from Fire Emblem, and he should've been an animator for the company that made it.

 

[BwdYeti]

It turns out Astra critical was harder than I expected since I would have to actually change some of the existing frames, so I just moved on to more pressing things for now.

Spoiler: Mostly an edit

Life Up!

Sol, Paladin skill, Lck% for HP regain equal to damage caused. Just the pose at the start and the effect are mine, rest is the original attack. Needed a simple skill so I could program activation skills, and so far they seem to work ~( ' 3')~

Magic swords. Definitely a high priority since they will both likely be promoted before even coming near a magic sword, right |:

 

[BwdYeti]

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/52680.htm

Finished nearly all the animations for the Halberdier. Still needs a little pose for his Skill at some point, but that's not nearly as much work.