Hello!
These last weeks have been rough, but still we have been able to advance on the design of the Monkey and the key animation studies.
Image 1: First monkey design concepts.
Image 2: Later monkey design concepts.
First of all, the studies on the design of the jumpsuit began by coming to the conclusion that we wanted a design that was more cartoony and minimalist at the same time.
After deciding on the design of the monkey, we have started the animation studies.
Within the animations we need an animation of the monkey walking, one charging the jump, one starting the jump, one of airborne, one of crashing into a wall instead of falling correctly, one of grabbing the vine and one of swinging.
Image 3: Sketch of concept of airborne sprite.
Image 4: Sketch of concept of Jump sprite.
For the jump and the airborne we have made small sketches of the ideas we have in mind and we have discussed the main poses.
Image 5: Sketch of tail animation.
We've also been thinking about doing simple swinging animations, focusing on the swinging tail movement.
Image 6: Key animation studies of walking.
The greatest advance has come with the animation of walking, since we have already studied the common walking movement of monkeys and the common ways to animate it, in order to extrapolate it to our minimalist style.
In this way we have advanced with the studies of the design of the monkey and the animation of walking, in addition to that we have begun to explore the other animations of the character.
And that's all, for now. Although we regret the lack of progress in the last few weeks, we will be able to progress the project regularly in the coming weeks.
Have a nice week!
Burning Crusaders Studio
