Animate my 2D pixel art logo - Retro Gaming Style
- Status: Closed
- Prize: $250
- Entries Received: 5
- Winner: matsugae
Contest Brief
I have a logo that I'm very happy with.
I need an animated version of it to act as a video intro for my productions.
Before I go into details the basic principle is this...I need the characters to run in from off-screen, left to right, to jump up onto the words and jump again in mid-air. "Performing a Double Jump".
It should It should have a transparent background. So it can be used over photo's, a background color of my choice or video.
Anyone not familiar with a "double jump" google is your friend, research some retro platform games. Id love the characters to perform different styles of double jumps, perhaps the female character does the regular double jump and the guy does a somersault double jump? Whatever works smoothly.
I had an animator attempt to do what I need, I've attached the previous attempt video but it's far from what I was looking for. So much so I didn't bother having him finish it by animating the second character in. As you can see there wasn't a correct sprite created for motion and the character goes blocky and strange looking when the character takes steps and little to no animation when he jumps. His arms and legs dont move enough, there should be more frames/character positions as he moves. The motion is very glitchy even for a 16 bit look.
As bad as this attempt was, the direction and speed he runs in is perfect. As you can see in the sample Id like the light trails layer to be revealed as they jump, this was also done well. And the characters should come to rest in the position they are in my logo. This was also done well as at the time I only had the man in the logo.
The static logo is uploaded here as a layered .psd as well as the individual characters and logo elements.
The entire logo has to come to life as they run in and settle to static as they freeze in mid jump.
The details that will make a winning contest entrant will be variations and options, maybe some the lights in the buildings behind flicker on and off a little, maybe the grass or sunset has subtle motion to it. Have fun with it. It should come to life and settle to still but don't make it too over the top . All motions in the background should be subtle.
I work in visual media, I'll need delivery of the final product in the format in which you edited the file as well as exported video files.
So to sum up.
They run into screen
Left to right
Well animate movement of arms and motion (Better than the previous animator)
Double jump over the words, simple jump, somersault jump etc at your discretion.
They should end up frozen in mid-air as they are in my logo (SO THE LOGO IN THE .PSD IS THE FINAL IMAGE)
Their double jump light trails should be left behind them as they jump.
Subtle animations made to grass, building lights, sunset etc, whatever looks best without looking busy.
Versions on Clear backed video animation to be used over images and video.
Maybe add Pixel clouds moving past them from right to left to help motion look? Get creative!
Best of luck. I can wait to see your work.
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