Hello darians,

I would like to share one neat trick with you from our game, Cure4Life.

Our artist didn’t have much experience in pixel art and in pixel art animation, unfortunately.

So we decided not to draw and animate player’s hands.
We thought that it would look OK as some pixel games look awesome without hands (Nuclear Throne, for example).

Well, we was wrong. This looks very bad in our art style:

So I tried to add some arms and it was way better:

As I’m a bit lazy to animate it frame-by-frame. It is also difficult as you can rotate weapons in any direction.
I tried to use Unity’s LineRenderer to create thick black lines as arms. And add two sprites as hands.
It took about 10 minutes to setup and voilà – nice convincing arms, that are animated with any weapon

P.S. If you’re interested in details about our game – feel free to ask in game comments 😉

Tags: postmortem, unity3d