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Basic animations of the Minotaur Boss
🕑 Added 2021-10-15 23:54:13 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
I've been working on making all of the necessary basic animations for the upcoming boss; things like idle, walking, attacking, defending, jumping, etc. There's a couple other animations that I need to finish, mostly for his special attacks which I won't spoil just yet. I want to make another interesting and reasonably challenging boss battle so please look forward to fighting against him.
Originally for his weapon I was going to have him wield the classic huge axe, but the patron suggested that I go for a more uncommon approach when it comes to depicting minotaurs and have him wield a sword and shield, which in turn would match well with the theme of his fight arena: the colosseum. I took a look at a few gladiatorial pictures, and added a few scattered pieces of armor as well as a roman inspired kilt complete his visual design, and the front facing horns give him a distinct look.
And as you can see in the previews, he's a huge fellow. As a reference, I've added some other bosses, enemies and Maya herself in the background for comparison, and it's pretty clear that he'll be the biggest character that I've added into the game, completely outmatching his "little" sister who was the tallest until now.
The size difference is even more drastic when you compare his frame to Maya's who's supposed to be an average sized woman, and it goes without saying that she will be the main one "interacting" with the big monster, so that contrast will be interesting. The scenes for the minotaur will be all centered around the vanilla/male and roughplay tags.
That said, it's no coincidence why most pixel art games (adult or not) tend to keep their character designs more on the small side: it's because animating big characters like this is a huge endeavor: for starters it's automatically much more pixels that you have to move around and edit, but also small pixel art has an advantage of allowing artists to "cheat" when depicting motion in animation, because the human brain will fill in the blanks when they see a small pixel characters doing any kind of movement, while that effect is somewhat lost the bigger the character is.
Suffice to say that I may have "bit more than I can chew" with this character design given his stature, so it may take me more time than usual to fully complete his ero scenes, but I think it will be a good challenge for me as an amateur artist so all I can do really is to continue moving forward, one pixel at a time.
Best Regards,
Laek
Comments
Mega Blue Ball
I'm glad that you liked it!
Mega Blue Ball
Thanks Vik! For his scenes, if all goes as planned he will switch between 3 different poses that fit his tags that I mentioned in the post. Then the scenes will loop around in a sort of endless display of his sheer "vitality" if you get what I mean haha
Mega Blue Ball
I appreciate it! Indeed, for the minotaur's concept there have been some suggestions for a cowgirl transformation, but I have to go by the original patron's idea. But other new enemies will certainly come and there's plenty more opportunity for interesting transformations in the future.
Mega Blue Ball
I'd say you might be on the right track ;-)
Mega Blue Ball
Yeah he'll definitely be a big boy in more ways than one... well, the good thing is that Maya is a pretty flexible and elastic girl, so she'll "fit" right in hehehe
Vik Virtue
Hey, he's looking pretty good. The roman designs do match well with the arena you showed off a bit ago. Wonder if he's more the appeal to the crowd kinda fighter, or one that gets in and gets the job done. That said, I'm interested to see how the ero scene will play out. Though from what you said, it'll be a bit to get through it all. Wish you all the good times making it.
Sara Keefler
Well I enjoy your work more than enough to play the game even though I am mostly into corruption and transformation. So Im sure that speaks well for your animation skills. Though I will admit to always hoping the next enemy transforms Maya :P
Zawkian Puppy
Yis! It is! Hehehe that scene is my favorite xD minotaur, werewolves and feral dragons being my biggest favorites as tops~ Surprised to find someone here that knows about SGR
Munchman
I know your supposed to defeat the bosses... but that big boy gonna make Maya into a Sloppy wet mess when he reveals what's under that kilt, me thinks.
Munchman
Would that game be Slave Girls Rising?
Zawkian Puppy
Oh wow! Nice work bud!! Whenever I see a minotaur in a lewd game my mind goes immediately to thinking of "all_the_way_through" kink. Thanks to a game I played before lol. Hope this big boy can be as big as possible, in all the right ways >:3 Hehehe cheers mate! Have a great night ^-^
Omnibreed001
NOICE!!!!
