First animations

Today I have made the first animations for the game. It took me a long while to getting used to animation, and I got some help from Nathan in my group to find inspiration and "good to knows" when it comes to animation. One such inspiration was this video that Nathan linked to me:

After viewing this, I got to work and made multiple iterations of animations. The first ones I made was the idle animation and the running animation.

The idle animation I made quite easily, I just wanted the character to move, but very subtly. This was the end result of the idle animation:

Here's how the first iteration of the running animation looked:

This animation wasn't very energetic though. I asked in our chat what the rest of the group thought, and they agreed that this more looked like the character was walking rather than running. As such I made a new animation where I let the characters movement be more emphasized. This was the result:

This time, I was much happier with the results, and so was the other members of the group as well!

As a final animation for today, I made a jumping animation. This animation was by far the hardest to make and took quite a while. Here's how it looks in action:

Finally, here is the updated tile sheet for the playable character including these new animations: