#animation
New Master Spy Sprites, Flip Jump, and Guard Booth
We decided to take some time this week to revise Master Spy’s sprites a bit. Supped up the cloak animation a little, added a key grab frame, and added lots of tweens now between cloaking/uncloaking (previously the cloaking animation played only if you weren’t moving).
Wait, was that a flip in there? YOU’RE FLIPPING RIGHT IT WAS!
The flip is something we’re currently testing out to give the player a little more precision in uncloaked mode. You can flip by pressing the jump button mid-jump, which cancels the upward velocity and allows you to travel a little further horizontally. Here’s a fun bug that happened while implementing the flip jump.
We’ve also introduced a new enemy for Mission 1 - the guard booth!
These guys are pretty easy to pass - just cloak and go! But their purpose is to create a little more pressure and tight situations in the earlier levels. Expect to see them peppered through Mission 1 in time!
Back to making enemies, levels, and art for us! If you haven’t yet, we’d appreciate your thumbs-up on greenlight!
Updated the sprites for Masterspy, glad that Kris added the glitches in there for everyone to see.
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NEON_RAIN
“It’s nights like these that make me homesick.”
Pink Syrup
ART_VS_ARTIST
“No consistency here…”
Creeping out of the shadows for reaching 5000 followers on Tumblr! Here’s a little ‘art vs artist’ meme of my non-Pink Syrupy works over the years. Thanks so much everyone! XOXO
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OHH! Just found out that Yamada & the 7 witches series has finally been animated and the series completed! Gah I love this show!!! Gawd I can’t stop laughing…
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“Diana”, a watercolor painting I’ve donated to http://drawthelinefund.com/ , a fundraiser for the ACLU.
The silent auction will be held tonight, at Gallery Nucleus. Come and mingle with us!
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Moana Visual Development, Part 3
The vignettes.
Here are some story vignettes that I did for Moana– Moana sailing off to sea, The bioluminescence of the sea rescuing Moana, and a take on the “Underworld”. Fun fact: There used to be a totem sculpture/tiki-inspired character in the early stages of development, that you can spot in the third underworld piece.
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Moana Visual Development, Part 2
“The Brothers”.
At one point in the story development, Moana had 9 older brothers, who sailed off leaving Moana behind, and who Moana eventually had to rescue!
Designing them, I thought it would be a fun idea to give them each a distinct personality, and to have their personalities reflected in the way they wear their lavalavas (The garments around their waist).
Bro No.1 = The leader, most like his father.
Bro No.2 = The warrior.
Bro No.3 = The artist and dreamer, and who Moana feels closest to.
Bro No.4 = The easygoing lovable big guy.
Bro No.5 & 6 = Twins who were amazing at rowing in synchronicity.
Bro No.7 = The lady’s man who was a great dancer.
Bro No.8 = The annoying loud one.
Bro No.9 = The aloof weird one.
And Moana’s the 10th child of the chieftain, and the first daughter.
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Moana Visual Development, Part 1.
Here are some of the very first drawings I did for Moana (Minus the last one, which was done later in the vis-dev stage). I was fortunate enough to work on the film in its very early stage thanks to the graciousness of Ron & Jon. Working with them alongside Jennifer Lee and Fawn Veerasunthorn is one of my fondest memories at Disney.
I have lots of Moana artwork that I want to post here, and am still trying to figure out exactly how to group them. Stay tuned! (For more work, you can also check out my instagram: @minkyu_lee_animating)
Moana is out in theaters now!
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Aone’s got something for you
Sound belongs to @/chikn.nuggit on TikTok
Both promos are now out for BIG IRON, my 60s-set animated crime series coming to YouTube! In this vignette, we look back at a moment from police chief Stiletto’s sordid past - a young Native American orphan trying to make it in the Deep South, wrapped up in the dealings of Prohibition-era crooks.
This project is a labor of love, and intends to tell the stories of people that rarely get their tales told. I hope you all enjoy it - and if you do, please give this a share to help get the word out for someone with a very very small audience!
In case you missed the first promo, HERE IT IS!
