Possible animation refs
We’ve now all agreed that the art style that we’ll be going for is Paper Mario like. We plan for the characters and items to be 2d while the background will be 3d.
scribblenauts
Characters limbs don’t bend when running
Pivoted from the body
Make the character in adobe animate
super paper Mario
smoke trail
very small amount of secondary animation
arms don’t move
characters always look at a 3/4 angle
Paper Mario and the origami king
only 2 frames for walk cycle
After looking at these examples, we’ve decided to go with puppet animation for the characters as it will be faster to animate everything.
This is the colour scheme we’ve decided to go for with the fish and to overlay shade them with a dark purple.
I asked the lecturer for feedback for the npcs and also looked at Joyce’s fish character drawings and came to these final designs. I also experimented with some of the colours. My idea for the shopkeeper is that they could maybe be a human pretending to be a fish person trying to scam you.