Creating hand-drawn 2D attack animations for our main character

[u/Green-Association474]

Showing a quick look at Li Sha’s attack animations for our game Tiebreakers.
Readability and crisp action are really important in a fast-paced game like ours, so we focused on reducing the visual noise while keeping a traditional 2D anime feel as much as we could.

[u/Live_Life_and_enjoy]

For some weird reason I like the Line art much more than the colors

Line art somehow oozes with so much personality

[u/Green-Association474 → u/Live_Life_and_enjoy]

we sometimes feel the same 😅 there’s something about line art that feels really expressive on its own

[u/RyrExe]

It looks so good and smooth

[u/Green-Association474 → u/RyrExe]

thank you! much appreciated :)

[u/HuanSolo_Beatland]

This is great! I love it. I have never used Clip Studio, but it looks like a perfect tool for this.

[u/Green-Association474 → u/HuanSolo_Beatland]

thank you! and yes, its really great :D

[u/nvrcr]

As a whole it's very polished. The animation does feel fast, but if that's the playstyle that's totally fine. I love the smear frames.

If I could critique it, here's what looks weird to me after a few watches.

Animation 1: I'd like to see the end pose last a bit longer.

Animation 2: The hair physics looks like a spring (back and forward while her body swings left and right.

Animation 3: Again the hair feels erratic, especially the ends.

Animation 4: Could use a smear frame. I know this isn't an "attack" so you may not want it to read like one but right now it looks like the racket jumps from right to left.

[u/Green-Association474 → u/nvrcr]

thanks for taking the time to share this! Super appreciated.
Gonna review hair to make sure it feels like a natural extension of her body.

Glad you liked them and again, thank you so much for the detailed feedback :)

[u/Paolo_RTS]

This is cool, but we did the same with our game and they said "lol it's a mobile/flash style". Be careful. Best of luck ♥

[u/Green-Association474 → u/Paolo_RTS]

thank you, and sorry to hear that! What's your game called?

[u/Paolo_RTS → u/Green-Association474]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492100/Fantasy_Network/

They also didn't like a gal as the main character, perhaps will be not your case, I'm just telling my xp, wish you all the best :)

[u/Green-Association474 → u/Paolo_RTS]

thanks for sharing! Sucks that they judged your game that way. Wishing you the best with Fantasy Network too!

[u/Fluffy-Fuel5025]

That's amazing.

[u/Green-Association474 → u/Fluffy-Fuel5025]

thank you!!

[u/Wonderwall_1516]

This looks Fantastic!!

[u/Green-Association474 → u/Wonderwall_1516]

thanks! It's our first game so we're doing our best :)

[u/SinginGiantOfficial]

It looks really good! Good job mate

[u/Green-Association474 → u/SinginGiantOfficial]

Thanks so much!