animated synthetic sprites (𝚍𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚎𝚝)

𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜? 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎!

𝟭. give me your weird robot

𝟮. you will receive a weird robot sprite

𝟯. i will conjure code to make the sprite move! (rigged and animated in the Godot game engine!)

𝟰. we will see where this experimentation takes us :>

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𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎:

• 𝚍𝚛𝚢 (synthetic constructs)

• 𝚠𝚎𝚝 (biosynthetic constructs that are like slime, bug, plant)

• 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚍𝚛𝚢 (mineral constructs)

• 𝚠𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 (digital entities, abstract critters)

• 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚍𝚛𝚢 (mechs and such)

• 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒 (robot gore is fine too)

 

𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚍:

• robots that have a suspicious absence of visible synthetic/mechanical details when viewed from 20 feet away (are they Really robots?)

 

𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚞𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝 𝚒𝚜:

• cute

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𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎:

• robot
• a static sprite of your robot
• a rigged and animated version of the sprite (short looping animation that is a few seconds in duration)
• no background by default
• transparent PNGs/GIFs of the character/animation
• Aseprite + Godot project files used to make sprites + rigged characters + animations
• any preliminary doodles i make if i need to figure out your design beforehand

 

you are free to use/modify the character rig for your Godot games! i'm only making the rig work for the specific animations i'm being requested to make with it. outside of that, it might look weird! getting the rig to work in other contexts is your work.

 

i animate mostly using scripted expressions rather than traditional keyframed animation. here is da behind-the-scenes look: https://file.garden/Z6XGmMheFD8ZleJy/animation_editor.mp4

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𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎: tell me what you have in mind. i'm expecting a detailed description of your robot paired with a sketch (line or color) and/or references. please list important design details you definitely want included. if you don't have an already developed robot design and i must spend interpretive effort in figuring one out for you, that is additional $$$.

 

𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: tell me what you want your robot to Do. what is their Personality? how do they Move? giving me several ideas for movement to pick from is ideal (but just one thing is ok too!). none of them need to be Fully Formed Animation Concepts, but keep scope in mind: the end result is a short looping animation that lasts a few seconds. i can't make the robot ascend through the various spheres of Dante's Paradiso in a few seconds. i'm sorry.

 

𝚏𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜: please understand that i cannot always compress details on your robot into a pixel art drawing that moves without losing some amount of visual information. if your robot is very detailed, i will either have to simplify your robot (might make you sad) or make the sprite bigger (costs more $$$). individual static or moving assets (such as props that the robot holds and uses) are also additional $$$ depending on complexity.

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𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍: once i inform you i've begun work, i expect to take around 4 days on and off, but i'll give myself up to 7 days. if something comes up and i need longer than 7 days, i'll communicate with you.

 

𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜: small revisions are fine during the spriting phase. i'll show you the sprite before i animate it. once animation is underway, revisions will be limited to fixing errors i've made. no trying to change the concept after animation starts plz.