Hello! My name is Morris, and I am the Lead Animator on Vermintide 2. I have been at Fatshark for a little over half a year now, with the first thing I worked on being the Drachenfels Lord. When I am not working, I like to read (my latest read was Exhalation by Ted Chiang), participate in GameJams,…

Name: Animation Devblog #1
Uploaded: 2020-08-28T20:08:54Z
Description: Fixed up top (linked here too) [Animation Devblog #1]

Note: fatshark_trelly (me) is not Morris the author of this. Morris is another developer and Hegde was busy, so I helped out.

Great developer post! This is what i enjoy about the dev posts. Would also be interesting to see design streams of some sort (that would be difficult without spoiling stuff though). But this is great, good explanation of how a project goes step by step :slight_smile:

This is what was meant by dev blog, not the previous I-speak-but-say-nothing. Looking up HEMA and using historical techniques as a base line is a excellent move.

[image] Palesz: Looking up HEMA and using historical techniques as a base line is a excellent move. Exactly. More weapons should stick to this. HEMA is not only about swords, but a lot more that was used in warfare, duels and self defence. Think of polearms (all kinds of them!), maces, axes, …

Thaks for this Dev blog, very interesting to read :+1:t2: and nice to see your inspirations too. Since we are talking about animations, I have some issues with getting stuck in the Heavy Attacks animation from time to time, when the left mouse button is released, the attack remains in the block, th…

I see Morris never done any serious larping :stuck_out_tongue:

This reads like a man who is very proud of his work and rightly so. Good job Morris (and co.), these weapon animations are a step above the already good existing ones. Interesting to read as well, always love to hear about rationale and background behind design decisions.

The clip showing Autodesk Motionbuilder was here earlier today but now it’s gone. Did something happen?

Beautiful. As someone who’s yet to buy the class (but planning to) that is one more argument towards it. Can’t see any autodesk, though.

[image] Suminagashi: The clip showing Autodesk Motionbuilder was here earlier today but now it’s gone. Did something happen? Fixed up top (linked here too) [Animation Devblog #1]

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Fixed up top (linked here too)

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