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Project Annie...In Motion!

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This is the place to share and discuss everything and anything that's both Annie and animated! Have an Annie animation that you'd like to share with the world? Post it here! Want to try animating something but don't know where to start? Ask questions here! Want to simply discuss ideas and thoughts regarding Annie and her animations? Discuss things here!

For those of you who are interested in actually producing Annie related animations, please use the following image as the default standard for both Annie's size and the dimensions of your workspace;

Annie_stand_idle_reference.png

The image is 1922 x 968. You can work in whatever dimensions you choose as long as Annie is the same size, though I would recommend working with the dimensions provided. Make sure you full-size the image before saving it to your computer. All credit goes to @Mysterygamer3k for developing this reference.

Animations are entirely produced in Photoshop. If enough people are interested I'll produce a guide for the animation process. I'll also begin to archive and organize anything that anyone produces and posts here.

Below are the three Annie animations that I've produced thus far:

AnnieIdleOpt.gif

AnnieAlternativeIdle2EditOpt.gif

AnnieIdleFinalOpt.gif



I'll keep the original post archived below for now :)

You may not know who I am DDB, but I've lurked these forums for long enough to know who you are. Anyways, this one's for you (set as spoiler for size):


AnnieIdleOpt.gif

AnnieAlternativeIdle2EditOpt.gif

AnnieIdleFinalOpt.gif

This is just a little animation I did for fun. I love Skullgirls and I love animation, so why not combine my two loves, right? This is at half scale, animated in Photoshop.

EDIT: I'll continue to update this post with additional animations and changes that I make to previous animation cycles
 
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Wow, that's pretty good. That idle would annoy me, but the animation's very nice.
 
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Zidiane said:
Wow, that's pretty good. That idle would annoy me, but the animation's very nice.

Heh thanks. Yeah, it really is quite annoying to watch...and that's coming from the guy who animated it lol
 
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Boyo... DDB will love you even more than i like Spacewhale for the mega man awesome art.
DDB will worship you as a demigod

this could be dangerous
 
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Looks like the D Man hasn't seen this yet. I'll summon him with an ancient ritual chant known to call him from even the deepest depths:

ANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEandyANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIE
 
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Clawsome Bombs said:
ANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEandyANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIEANNIE
I shall assist!
@DDB I AM THE BIGGEST ANNIE FAN OF THEM ALL!

On topic, that's some good animation.
 
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I literally just started to watch Samurai Jack one hour ago. This can’t be a mere coincidence.

Aku, your miserable schemes are revealed! Bow yourself to the power of the robot detective that is me, or you will be destroyed!

...

Nice Sprite by the way. But I still oppose you, fiend! Your end is nigh! Using Annie as your cover to win the support of the fans, how pitiful! I will not forget this.
 
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I like that sas in her idle. The perfect "I'm better than you" ammount in that to give the perfect Annie personality.

I still wanna see more Annie as a veteran of countless wars.
 
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He has now.

This is well made - the animation work is pretty good!
But she's a super-old hugely talented fighter, she wouldn't have nervous-schoolgirl-how-I-use-sword face, stance, or grip, IMO, not even to fake it.

Now all we need is another animator and some volunteer cleanup people, and we can have Annie directed by Lab Zero. :^P
 
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The animation on this is incredible. The actual idle animation concept seems a little weird to me, as it seems like kind of a sassy and/or joy hip sway, but a completely deadpan facial expression, but regardless, it looks fantastic!
 
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BrandX+ said:
Have you shown this to Lab Zero? This is actually fantastic.

and it mimics Alex's style pretty well.

do send it to them!
 
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Mike_Z said:
He has now.

This is well made - the animation work is pretty good!
But she's a super-old hugely talented fighter, she wouldn't have nervous-schoolgirl-how-I-use-sword face, stance, or grip, IMO, not even to fake it.

Now all we need is another animator and some volunteer cleanup people, and we can have Annie directed by Lab Zero. :^P


YOU HEARD THE MAN @DDB AND @Skullmageddon . THERE IS A CHANCE!

now seriously, maybe after mecha-fortune we might get new chars, so why not?
 
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Phish Food o3o said:
Hey Annie peeps, you keep lamenting how you want playable Annie. You have fans that made that anime clip thing, not to mention the boatloads of fan art you all made. Why haven't you guys actually tried animating moves for her yourself? There was that one Stanley super that was fan made. Why can't you do something like that? Hell, you even have some of Alex's concept arts to go off of!
 
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Do you realize what you've become the catalyst of, you beautiful creature?
 
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Mike_Z said:
He has now.

This is well made - the animation work is pretty good!
But she's a super-old hugely talented fighter, she wouldn't have nervous-schoolgirl-how-I-use-sword face, stance, or grip, IMO, not even to fake it.

Now all we need is another animator and some volunteer cleanup people, and we can have Annie directed by Lab Zero. :^P

Heh thanks :)

Yeah, I'm actually not too up to date on what her character is like when it comes to personality and characteristics. I just kind of animated what I thought would look good, but you're right in saying that it probably isn't the best match for her character.
 
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DDB said:
Do you realize what you've become the catalyst of, you beautiful creature?

I'm well aware :)
 
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Skullmageddon said:
Heh thanks :)

Yeah, I'm actually not too up to date on what her character is like when it comes to personality and characteristics. I just kind of animated what I thought would look good, but you're right in saying that it probably isn't the best match for her character.

Just talk to DDB. He probably has a better idea. pft.
 
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Lol I wish it were that easy. But hey, get enough like-minded people together and anything can happen, right? ;)

Honestly, I would love ya guys forever if you guys were to make Annie happen. I want a fucking third character already (Nobody else fits my taste) pft.
 
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BrandX+ said:
Honestly, I would love ya guys forever if you guys were to make Annie happen. I want a fucking third character already (Nobody else fits my taste) pft.

Hey, if we got permission and a little one-on-one support from a certain group of people I'd totally take the lead on such a venture :)
 
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It also seems like Sagan should be incorporated into the idle, as well. He is her number one partner, after all.
 
You guys are making her idle too cute, it's like you guys don't even get the point of her character. She's supposed to fight like a seasoned and burly fighter (which is to contrast her cute appearance), not one who can barely lift her weapon. It should be something more like Genjuro or Hanzo, at least in tone.
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Edit: Sorry, I didn't mean to come across like a dick, it's not bad, it's just a bit out of character.
 
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BrandX+ said:
Just take the money from Robo Fortune and put it towards Annie, nobody likes her anyway #Kappa

I feel that Annie would be kind like Sol Badguy in terms of attitude, maybe a little more upbeat, but dead serious:
sol-reload-stance.gif

Yeah, that's a good reference

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It also seems like Sagan should be incorporated into the idle, as well. He is her number one partner, after all.

I originally had sagan in the idle, but when researching her it seemed like most of her moves wouldn't involve him. Since she usually holds him in her hands, it seemed to me like it would make more sense for him to only appear when she needs him for combat (so for specific moves)
 
DDB said:
Something more like this, maybe?

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(credit to http://ceeberoni.tumblr.com/post/57211917018/thank-you-everyone-who-came-to-the)
ALSO NO. That's even more "How does this big heavy sword work Mister Man?" What's with the gosh darned knock-kneed thing? They both have it!
Now I'm not Alex, but she'd stand like she's been using that sword for a hundred years. [edit: Because she has been!]
Sol and Genjuro are closer to what I saw, or Ukyo or Johnny or anyone that's supposed to be a badass.
 
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I dont really see a problem with annie being knock kneed.
 
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