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Jellicent♀ April 15th, 2012 8:35 AM

I'm satisfied with the animations. I still want Tepig to hop around, BUT I'LL LIVE.
Are they going to be changing the animation for all Pokemon, or just the starters? I know it's been a debate whether or not they have, but I'm not sure if anyone has confirmed it yet.

Cello April 15th, 2012 8:37 AM

Personally I love all of the trainer animations shown so far. They looks far smoother than past animations.
I know for Pokemon animations they use a joint animation system (Yuck imo) to cut down on time consumption, which is understandable. When you have to animate 649+ creatures with multiple stances/front & back positions in a battle you're going to want to cut down the time it takes to meet project milestones.

The trainers actually look like they were properly animated though!
I can't wait to see more, such as the new Gym Leaders and such.

Jellicent♀ April 15th, 2012 8:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Cello (Post 7133003)
Personally I love all of the trainer animations shown so far. They looks far smoother than past animations.
I know for Pokemon animations they use a joint animation system (Yuck imo) to cut down on time consumption, which is understandable. When you have to animate 649+ creatures with multiple stances/front & back positions in a battle you're going to want to cut down the time it takes to meet project milestones.

The trainers actually look like they were properly animated though!
I can't wait to see more, such as the new Gym Leaders and such.

I'm excited about the Gym Leaders, too. Especially the Water Leader.
The ones I'm most excited to see is how they animated the Elite Four and the Champion.

Zelda April 15th, 2012 8:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Jellicent♀ (Post 7133008)
I'm excited about the Gym Leaders, too. Especially the Water Leader.
The ones I'm most excited to see is how they animated the Elite Four and the Champion.

Yeeesss. If the Elite Four does happen to stay the same (minus Alder pl0x), I can imagine Shauntal flipping a page of her book as the new animation.

Jellicent♀ April 15th, 2012 8:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaori (Post 7133028)

Yeeesss. If the Elite Four does happen to stay the same (minus Alder pl0x), I can imagine Shauntal flipping a page of her book as the new animation.

I could see Grimsley dancing. Oh lawd, the image. <3
Marshal showing off his skills.
Caitlin giving you the stink eye for waking her lazy self up.
Shauntal flipping pages and writing in her book.
Finally, Alder BEING ABSENT ALL TOGETHER falling through the air, landing on his feet, and then sitting down.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire April 15th, 2012 9:56 AM

The ninja class if they appear (I don't remember seeing much of them in BW) can fade in and out like actual ninja.
The swimmers could swims around in circles, or rise up from the water.

Black Kyurem's sprite needs fixing...it looks an ugly shade of brown rather than grey like it's official art work...

Zelda April 15th, 2012 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Magmaruby and Aquasapphire (Post 7133135)
The ninja class if they appear (I don't remember seeing much of them in BW) can fade in and out like actual ninja.
The swimmers could swims around in circles, or rise up from the water.

Black Kyurem's sprite needs fixing...it looks an ugly shade of brown rather than grey like it's official art work...

The shadow triad scares me, but I'd like their animation to do that. Couldn't imagine what else they would do anyway. The swimmer trainers from Black and White don't look like they would come out of the water though. The male swimmer is stretching so his animation is bound to be him stretching from side to side.

Black Kyurem looks like it combined itself with Garbodor. u_u;

Zephele April 15th, 2012 10:08 AM

I'm fairly surprised that they're using proper animation for the trainers, instead of the 3-frame stuff we usually get. The stuff they've shown is great so far - one reason that I'm now hoping for some of the Gym Leaders/Elite Four reappear is so we could see their animated sprites, haha.

And I only just realized from the sprite that Black Kyurem's arms are really long...

Mew~ April 15th, 2012 10:12 AM

I am quite disappointed with the Black and White Kyurem sprites at the moment, they look far too junky and flinky, but eh - we've seen sprite changes happen before so I've got my fingers crossed.

Ho-Oh April 15th, 2012 4:19 PM

I love Oshawott's, btw. It's perhaps the cutest thing the games have revealed so far and looks like Oshawott in anime which is cute ;;

Aaand, yeah, Black Kyurem's sprite is terrible. Honestly they could've done better, imo. :x WHY SUCH NICE ART BUT SUCH BAD SPRITE?!

KingDrapion April 15th, 2012 4:23 PM

Hopefully they do change them. Black kyurems especially. A bit of recolouring on the brown patch to make it grey would make them look a little better atleast. Oh well, Game freak is said to show off tons of stuff next month so can't wait until then.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire April 15th, 2012 5:24 PM

^ I sure hope they are beta, especially Black Kyurem, it looks quite bland...
I wish the sprites were less pixelized, but I guess we have to deal with them until they can find how to make them move without making them pixally.

Sheep April 15th, 2012 5:33 PM

Oshawott's new animation is adooorable! Feels more realistic now than it just moving its head back and forth and jumping lol. But eep, the animated rival sprite looks very fluid :'DD Excited to see what they'll do with the leaders and Elite Four.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire April 15th, 2012 5:42 PM

I enjoyed the starters new animation, especially Oshawott's, the new one seems so much like I had imagined when BW were coming out, plus it reminds me of Ash's Osha ^_^.

I can see the poison gym leader jamming to her gitar.

Jellicent♀ April 15th, 2012 5:42 PM

Just saw the animation for the rival's sprite and omg, so adorable. This makes me really excited to see how other trainers are animated. He seemed to smooth and fluid in his movements, I just can't imagine how well they did the other sprites in the game. <3

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire April 15th, 2012 5:44 PM

I wish that the pokemon's sprites could be as fluid as the trainers...
I wonder if the trainers will have diffrent animations after defeat. It'll be fun to see the trainer animation coming up during his last Pokemon, acting angry, saying how he's about to explode.

Ho-Oh April 15th, 2012 6:03 PM

Omg I'd love post-battle animations. Probably not going to happen though cause IMO it would take long enough to do the normal animations. :( everyone dropping props would be awesome though after losing lol.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire April 15th, 2012 7:08 PM

Maybe they reserve post battle animations for gym leaders and the rival xD.

KingDrapion April 16th, 2012 9:29 PM

Animations that I want to see are trainers and gym leaders actually throwing the pokeballs out onto the battlefield. But I guess current animations are good as well with each trainer and gym leaders having unique animations. But I dunno, I'd prefer watching the trainers throw out pokeballs. Ofcourse this is only my Opinion.

Livewire_ April 16th, 2012 9:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Forever (Post 7133872)
Omg I'd love post-battle animations. Probably not going to happen though cause IMO it would take long enough to do the normal animations. :( everyone dropping props would be awesome though after losing lol.

I'd love that. Maybe take it a step further and give them a winning animation, and a losing animation, ahaha. But I'd imagine that would take up quite a lot of space/resources/data, etc. And it would draw battles out, too.

Zelda April 17th, 2012 2:06 AM

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Originally Posted by KingDrapion (Post 7135742)
Animations that I want to see are trainers and gym leaders actually throwing the pokeballs out onto the battlefield. But I guess current animations are good as well with each trainer and gym leaders having unique animations. But I dunno, I'd prefer watching the trainers throw out pokeballs. Ofcourse this is only my Opinion.

AMEN SISTER. I mean you'd think they would have that by now, but nope. n_n I guess it isn't too big a deal, but it would've made battles more realistic in the beginning scene.

Now that you mention Gym Leader animations, it'd be amazing to see Homika rocking out to her electric guitar, and there being an actual short guitar solo during the animation.

Jellicent♀ April 17th, 2012 4:40 AM

I think I would love to see Shizui's animation be similar to the attack dive. Like he's underwtaer at first and then launches into the air from underneath and lands on his feet in a big "TA-DAH" pose.

Killjoy April 17th, 2012 10:39 AM

I hope they update a few of them at sometime. Of the top of my head, Typhosion especially has a pretty poor back sprite

Zelda April 17th, 2012 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Killjoy (Post 7136465)
I hope they update a few of them at sometime. Of the top of my head, Typhosion especially has a pretty poor back sprite

If GameFreak doesn't get around to changing the sprite of all 649 Pokémon, then I'd be cool with a change for Unova Pokémon only at least. :[ Though Lillipup had the same sprite/animation, they could always change that in the future and get away with it.

Jellicent♀ April 17th, 2012 1:13 PM

I wouldn't mind all of the Pokemon sprites being the same, at all, really. Though what bothers me is how FAT Clefairy got over the course of one generation. It was skinny in the fourth, and then fifth it gained fifty pounds.

I do wish they would show the opponents' sprites throw the Pokeball, but eh, it's not a big issue.


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