Lol, I thought the exact same thing… the issue is that she’s suppose to be holding a shield in this animation… since I didn’t animate the shield, I tried to position her hand where her shield would be lol.
-Pickle
Sorry for the lack of updates guys… I’ve been really under the weather and it turns out that I have pneumonia… 2013 isn’t going well for me lol.
-Pickle
Take a pause. Better you get healthy than you are trying to do more updates. Care about your health.
I don’t know how to say that in english, but: Bless you =)
Thanks matheus… I am taking it pretty easy. It’s been pretty easy since my kids in school, and these past couple days he’s taken a nap on the way home from school, so I’ve been able to get plenty of rest.
Other than that, being sick is really really boring lol. So it’s been a good opportunity to work on the game animations.
One problem we recently came across is that the character is taller than the ground tiles, so her head kind of sticks into the roof of the caves when running… to fix that, I’m making animations for her to crouch, then walk in a crouched position.
Here’s the rough draft:
* I realize her left leg looks kind of weird around frame 5… I’ll fix that later.
* Oh, and the reason why her arms are like that is because she’s suppose to be holding a 2 handed weapon like a spear… i just forgot to show it lol
-Pickle
Edit: Added one-handed crouching animation
couldn’t you just scale it down be 5% or something? Seems way easier then having a crap load of extra animation.
I tried doing that, but I’m at the point where image quality suffers if I shrink any further… plus we were thinking about having a stealth mode later on where the character would be in a crouched walk position (think rouges in world of warcraft).
-Pickle
Still wondering about this… 
Hehe… I’ll let you know when the time is right
in the mean time… ACK A SKELETON!!
http://pickleninja.com/unembra/img/NPCAnimations/skeleton_1.gif
ok… fever of 102… back to bed for me.
-Pickle
Just add a nice swinging soundtrack to it!
lol… bow-chicka-wow-wow!
Hey guys,
pneumonia finally done… man am I glad that’s finally over lol
Be expecting more updates this upcoming week 
-Pickle
ok, so pneumonia was kinda done when I said it was done lol… been tired lately, but I’m getting there
Here’s a rough draft of a skeleton running… I realize that he needs to move his arms and torso a bit, and that I should face his head forwards… but it’s a start
-Pickle
Given that it’s a skeleton, you probably should aim for jerky and unnatural movement
It’s a very long legs compared to their torso/arms
Also, his torso should at least move up and down quite a bit, but jerky movement definitely seems like a better idea.
I tried making the animation a little more jerky… it’s kind of difficult. I can see how it should look in my brain, but making the skeleton do it is a whole new story lol.
I’ll try moving the torso a bit too, but this is what I’ve got so far.
http://pickleninja.com/unembra/img/NPCAnimations/skeletonWalk_3.gif
-Pickle