Animation Feedback

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eNTi wrote:

the duelist feels like he's got no gravity working on him. you should really try just to watch normal people do what you are trying to animate, to make it look real. no one ever sings a sword like that and also not always in the same fashion. there needs to be a bit of randomization. blizzard always did a fantastic job on character animation. especially movement. that's the way to go. there's some basic physics in the movement and it seems you pretty much ignored that.

from what i've seen this is ESPECIALLY bad in the character seleciton screen. every character moves completely effortless. there's not enough breathing and weapons should be heavy. at the moment, everything seems to be of the same weight.

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Entelechy wrote:

Hi everyone, first post on the forums here :)

I'm lvl 17 now and quite enjoy the game so far. But what's been bugging me the most up until now where the animations, or the lack of.

Animations can make for a lot more than graphics, and to me matter a lot more then a nifty 3d-engine with cr00zy effects and stuff (forcing me to buy a new PC °_°).

That being said, I haven't been enjoying my duelist as much as I could have. A few variations in attack- and skill animations would help a lot.

As it is now, the characters feel... stiff. The running, the attacking, the switch between different animations... everything feels kinda storky (is that even a word?)
Because, in the end, the thing we will be looking at for 99% of our PoE time is our chars, and thus I feel they should look as good as possible.

Also the boss of Act I (Marv...?) reminded me a lot of Diablo II's Andariel... by moving as crappy as she did, 10 or so years ago 8[

Hope I didn't sound too harsh :)

Edit: Oh, one more thing! Great job on the tentacle-things in the passage in Act I! They're moving so damn snakeish, they're giving me the creeps! And they continue to do so when dieing and they always come in swarms and everything's twisting and twirling and gah! Can't even think about them!

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ManiaCCC wrote:

Hello Ari,

I like a lot of work in PoE..some animations are great but I know for you it's more useful when we tell you, what we don't like.

I am doing some rigs and animations too so I know how complicated is makes everything right. But I have one specific thing I really don't like.

I believe characters are lacking a "hit and impact" feel. While good swing animations are important, what I miss are proper aggressive looking battle stances. I think you shouldn't be afraid to exaggerated these stances a bit. Both my templar and duelist just don't have this "I am ready to fight feel" ... They both seems to be just walking in some LalalalaLAND and sometimes beat something with stick over the head.

This is probably my biggest issue with animations. I really believe you should really try exaggerated battle stance at least for one character and try it how it feels.. In long run, it will be worth.

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permaximum wrote:

In my humble opinion, large overhaul of monster death animations along with hit reactions, strong squishy sound and making melee attacks just a little bit quicker would do wonders.

I think focusing on and improving upon character attack animations wouldn't really change things because of the result will be the same anyway (monster death animation). Also when I consider the fact that you're the only animator Ari, getting everything right this far into the development sounds almost impossible.

So, I vote for changed monster death animations instead of improved character weapon swing, movement animations.

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SinisterDexter wrote:

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Ari wrote:

If you have any specific monster death animations that bother you please list them and i'll go through and tweak what i can.

It's a little silly for Infernal Blow to blow skeletons up into a bunch of blood and guts. (Also Detonate Corpse on skeleton corpses.)