there's no preloader, so you might want to download to desktop or let it run through once first...

wow. 30fps. this was a pain in the ass to make. there were a lot of setbacks too, like accidental overwrites etc. don't think i'll work at this speed for free work anymore.

the next part's animation quackery, if you're not really into this stuff, you might want to skip it-

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okay, i've been playing with a new technique. until now i've been a strong advocate of the "animate EEEEVERYTHING" school of thought, with everything hand-done with no tweens. this is kind of a halfway point. i'm animating pretty much every second or third frame (at 30fps), with the inbetweens all transforms of the keys...sometime's it's a composite multi-frame transform, for example, in one of ranoshi's sword strokes, his body moves over 3 frames, or something, and his arms move over double that number.


here's a slo mo so you can see what i'm talkin' 'bout- [link]

i'm not entirely convinced i like the look of it, especially for angle work, like the first sword stroke, it's a little...'slidy'...things seem to just glide across the frame. it kinda reminds me of flash kids tv shows. except that i'm not really using the same symbols over and over, instead just transforming keys to avoid redrawing them...it's still kinda lazy. thoughts? your experiences with "lazy inbetweens"?


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i hope i win.

actually, i just hope that i get a counter entry this time...(not looking at anyone in particular (coughcough))

you can find 's ref for ranoshi here- [link]

and mori's page is here- [link]

oh, hey, and if you saw the preview thumbnail image, the full sized version with no text over the top is here- [link]