Swimming Animations (WIP)

[BlinkBoy]

Well, I've been working on the Animation Bank lately, so I started today preparing my first share and the standard rigg for the bank 8accessable for everyone in both IK & FK and for both NeoDex & ArtTools).

About my share:

well I was thinking, which animations are important and blizzard didn't make any? after a little bit of thinking I found many possible sets to make, but the most challenging ones I found were humanoid swimming animations.

until now this is what I got, these are my first swim animations so don't be mean (>' ')>:

At start I made 2 fast Stands and I couldn't decide which to take. Don't know which is more realistic so we will call them Stand and Stand Alternate.

Stand:

Let's call the other Stand Alternate:

And now a simple Walk I made. It's the Crol style for now, I'm thinking on making the 4 styles, but for now I'll only make 2: Crol and Breaststroke.

EDIT: ok, made BreastStroke Walk as well.

Note:
The animations presented above are quite far from finished, no interpoltion fixings and other extras have been made as of now, they also require extra tweekings and fixing oto reproduce a more realistic movement: example feet in crol.

 

[L2love]

vary nice no dive? o well i like them =]

 

[BlinkBoy]

vary nice no dive? o well i like them =]

hmm, perhaps later.

 

[Linaze]

Could be extremely useful, and from my point of view, it does look rather good.

 

[BlinkBoy]

Could be extremely useful, and from my point of view, it does look rather good.

well all these aren't final they're just alpha, you could point out any flaws you see so, at the end, when I fix everything up, I fix the flaws that I have to fix.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Hmm, this could cut much time for our undine model

 

[BlinkBoy]

Hmm, this could cut much time for our undine model

hmm, well try making it's skeleton the standard wc3 skeleton.

 

[Asomath]

Yes. Those are sexy animations. (Will be extremely useful.) I have never seen anyone float while doing somthing like the stand alternate though, he looks like he is going to sink under soon XD

~Asomath

 

[BlinkBoy]

Yes. Those are sexy animations. (Will be extremely useful.) I have never seen anyone float while doing somthing like the stand alternate though, he looks like he is going to sink under soon XD

~Asomath

you know I took that Idea at looking at Zelda TP. I took link and went to lake hylia, put him on water and looked at the animation. I was like :O.

 

[Devine]

very neat.

 

[BlinkBoy]

very neat.

ok, added one more animation, BreastStroke Walk. I think that's all for today.

Any suggestions for attacks and deaths? I was thinking on making multiple attacks and stand animations since this animation sety is one of a kind, it would be sad if all the swimmers out there would use the same walk, attack and death.

 

[Kwah]

His head bobs too much in the breast stroke. It's too much vertical at one point in anim.

Arms in stand alternate look awfully loose.

Still, looks great.

Death - sinking, duh!
Attack - Overhead swing in present Stand anim. (1 arme'd)

 

[BlinkBoy]

His head bobs too much in the breast stroke. It's too much vertical at one point in anim.

Arms in stand alternate look awfully loose.

Still, looks great.

Death - sinking, duh!
Attack - Overhead swing in present Stand anim. (1 arme'd)

the head is suppose to be vertical in breaststroke, and well it only goes out at the braze which is the moment where it has to pop. Yet, I think I get what you mean, I think that lil pop is a bit exagerated.

about the stand alternate, I completely agree with you. However, I not even visualized that animation it was just a random shoot, so I think I'll remake the arms or look for something better.

EDIT:

wait- ships sink, not humans, humans just get drown and are left there as floating bodies.

 

[Kwah]

the head is suppose to be vertical in breaststroke, and well it only goes out at the braze which is the moment where it has to pop. Yet, I think I get what you mean, I think that lil pop is a bit exagerated.

It's supposed to maintain more of a forward motion throughout, going with the stroke.

wait- ships sink, not humans, humans just get drown and are left there as floating bodies.

Depends on the human, really. Lack of air lifting can lead to an equilibrium being reached at a point under-water.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Consider that the most common way to die in warcraft is by getting attacked
so you wouldn't just want him to sink.

 

[Deolrin]

Just do what they did for Murlocs in-game, make them die and slowly sink in the water in the Decay Swim animation.

 

[BlinkBoy]

It's supposed to maintain more of a forward motion throughout, going with the stroke.

if I do that then he wouldn't breath air. Trust me man, I know what I'm doing, I was in the swimming team when I was at school.

Depends on the human, really. Lack of air lifting can lead to an equilibrium being reached at a point under-water.

a full flesh human body will never have a density higher than that of water, unless the lungs get filled with water. But that won't happen because the guy be attacked, therefore a floating body should be left.

 

[Deolrin]

BlinkBoy, it's Warcraft. Not maths. So I think you should just stick with the way Blizzard did it.

 

[BlinkBoy]

BlinkBoy, it's Warcraft. Not maths. So I think you should just stick with the way Blizzard did it.

nah, I don't copycat them, copycats normally turn into an epic fail. I'll do as I think it's best as an artist.

Plus blizzard's intuitive way of making a walk swim animation for the murloc was copy the land walk and make the murloc do it but in water with some particles.

 

[Deolrin]

No, I just mean for the decay. It should sink. Otherwise the model wont be correctly working in-game.

 

[Asomath]

Fuck, this sucks, I can’t sleep, because of pain. I'll let my friends on the hive keep me company.

Anyway, yeah Blinkboy is totally right.

However, the body will sink once tissue deteriorates and it becomes waterlogged.

~Asomath

 

[Taylor Mouse]

On the very firts animated gif, there is a dead moment, try to get rid of it.
The stand alternate, I don't really see an actuall need for that
On the breaststrike, the moment the head goes up, again a dead moment, push the arms lower.
But that is just my opinion, the rest, looks awsem

T.

 

[Asomath]

On the very firts animated gif, there is a dead moment, try to get rid of it.
The stand alternate, I don't really see an actuall need for that
On the breaststrike, the moment the head goes up, again a dead moment, push the arms lower.
But that is just my opinion, the rest, looks awsem

T.

Animations loop. The "Dead" moment is just when the animation restarts in the model editor.

~Asomath

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

its really good, but in the crawl walk anim the head goes down just the moment he would breathe

 

[D a w n]

awesome
But personally I don´t like that stand alternate animation :>

 

[Asomath]

Link is a loser of a swimmer in TP

~Asomath

 

[BlinkBoy]

okay I've done some fixes (not posted yet, I'll update the pictures later). Until now, I have fixed crol's breathing and head in breaststroke. Actually, the reason of the head moving unlikely in breaststroke was a mismatch between the ending and starting keys.

 

[bboy-tiger-]

+rep, really nice.

 

[pkw]

Ah beautiful animations ^^

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Animations loop. The "Dead" moment is just when the animation restarts in the model editor.

~Asomath

I know what it is, but it should not be there

T.

 

[LordDz]

I wanna see an abomination with those.

 

[Wrel]

Very cool Blink Boy, you animate like a fiend.

 

[Callahan]

You started this for the animation bank?
But I don't see dl link for the base skeleton model

 

[BlinkBoy]

You started this for the animation bank?
But I don't see dl link for the base skeleton model

It's not finished. I haven't actually made any progress since then, I'll finish it as sonn as I get free.

 

[willydawiller]

the head is suppose to be vertical in breaststroke, and well it only goes out at the braze which is the moment where it has to pop. Yet, I think I get what you mean, I think that lil pop is a bit exagerated.

about the stand alternate, I completely agree with you. However, I not even visualized that animation it was just a random shoot, so I think I'll remake the arms or look for something better.

EDIT:

wait- ships sink, not humans, humans just get drown and are left there as floating bodies.

death animation should be something like in titanic when dicaprio dies :_D

or like in the cliffhanger movie when that woman fallsrazz in the start ,
with her hands swinging over her head

 

[Dionesiist]

Oh, harr harr!

 

[BlinkBoy]

Oh, harr harr!

ahem, refrain from spam please.

 

[Kwah]

But the head of the breast stroke still needs afixin'. Motion is too sudden and vertical.

But meh. Doesn't really matter, I suppose. They're great anyway.

 

[Squidle]

Usefull, Nice, w00t.

This would be a great model for a cinematic like "When Sharks Attack" or sumthin'.