This is why I will not finish

Three and a half hours in and I now have the art for a walking animation and am writing my first post. And I have made the foolish decision to try and draw it all by hand.

dude_walk01

dude_walk02

This is going to look terrible animated as my drawing is far to inconsistent. Things change size drastically from image to image. And I realise now that I didn’t finish his pack on the last frame in the first image.

As a not-very-good artist it also takes me far to long to draw things. However, since my idea is adapted from the idea I had for Isolation (a theme I suggested) it thankfully won’t involve any other entities. Though I would like to add more animations for this character. Sadly my idea is probably to large in scope for Ludum Dare. It will likely turn into something I’ll work on after Ludum Dare 16 is over.

Anyways, now on to cleaning up these drawings into somethign I can actually and making a game with them. I figure I’ll be using C++ with SDL.

Comments

Akunate
12. Dec 2009 · 03:45 UTC
It’s better than I can draw… would have taken me the same time just to draw the first frame of the animation.
SonnyBone
12. Dec 2009 · 03:48 UTC
Wow. Looks pretty cool, actually. I look forward to whatever you end up with.