Mid-week Progress Post: Ladybird Animations

[MikeSlugDisco]

One of the really nice things for the rest of us on the Slug Disco team has been seeing Matt's models and animations for the various creatures in Empires of the Undergrowth come to life. Here's the ladybird showing off his animation set. Check out that wing detail!

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[Serafine]

Is the video accelerated at the start?
Because this first second really looks a bit too fast. I mean the ladybug is basically smashing into the ground (in fact it impacts so hard that it actually bounces back up into the air for a split second) and folding his wings all in about half a second. That's just too fast to look any natural.
The rest of the animations is incredibly beautiful though (even the take-off looks good).

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

You have to remember you're looking at this much closer than you ever will in-game (which is a testament to Matt's abilities that the models hold up so well at this detail level).

 

[Raptorofwar]

There's no death sequence?

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

There is a death animation ready for it now, but in this case we wanted to show you the flying off animation instead because it shows the wings.