New Archer class available.

New job class for the new set, there’s four different attack poses once again. The advance pose also doubles as a jump, gonna have to edit that into the deviantArt pose descriptions later.

Archer – Ranged attacks using bows, this eagle eyed class can attack from a great distance or even rain down a shower of arrows.

Now links to my deviantArt page so I can manage all my resources in one place.

I’m going to be making the Male equivalent next, but then what kind or job class/weapon would you like to see next?

Enjoy

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Archer Attacks!

I’m back and feeling a lot better, so without wasting any more time I’ve got straight back onto these little cute things.

Just a bit of background as to what I do I thought I’d share part of the journey as to how I come to create some poses. Take for example one of the next releases that I’m working on, the Archer. Now personally the reason I wanted to make my own content all those years ago was because I wasn’t happy with minor things about the available resources. No offence is meant by any of this as I know how long and what kind of effort goes into creating these pesky things.

So I firstly look at what’s available and that also means seeing them in action. I find what I can of the weapon that I’m making, in this case a bow.  From this I can see what are the good points are that I’d like to keep and see if there’s any areas of improvement-

 This is using a frame from the idle pose then the attack pose frames, and is taken directly from the sheet itself so this would be what the user has within a battle from a direct import without any editing.

Now I’m not going to go through each one and point out what it is that I make notes of as I’m sure certain things would be obvious. It’s the same for the positive things, all this may take some time to do and find but I feel it’s worth doing a bit of research into the market. Plus if they’re being used it also helps to find out what people use/like.

One of the new aspects of my battlers is the inclusion of a skills pose, where normally the attack or magic pose is duplicated for a skill. This, though time consuming, personally I feel gives the end user more flexibility and control.

Here’s the Idle to Attack, Idle to Skill frames for Vannes:

Instead of just having him stand and attack I thought a kneeling pose would help with skills like ‘arrow rain’ and such.

 

Enjoy, and I hope this gives a bit of insight into the goings on, any questions or comments you can either comment here or PM on any of the forums I’m at.