How we did a character animation for War Alliance (3 min to read)

Why do you need to read this article?

• Optimal way to create animation is decrease your budget on that process
• And a time 🙂

So you can just take our experience and implement it to your company.

The steps to create an ideal animation:

1. Create a rig
2. Find a references and approve a references
3. Create an animatic
4. Create a final animation and approve it

How was an exact process to create an animation and what we get at the end?

1. We created a rig, that a fit requirements from War Alliance

2. Then we get a references from a client and create a first animatic. It’s not smoothly and rough to understand the direction and do a changes in fastest way. (example with attack)

3. Then we got a comments, that looks like that:

4. And in a final stage we did it smoothly, regarding to all guidelines of a game

The main insights:

1. Always show a references to your artists
2. Ask them to create a storyboard or a rough animation (animatic)

And then you will get a great animation with optimized processes :)