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Best Fighting Game Walking Animations
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Not the best quality, but you gotta love Marie Rose's trolling.
(what's the best YouTube-GIF converter btw? I used imgur here)
I use instagiffer.
Not the best quality, but you gotta love Marie Rose's trolling.
(what's the best YouTube-GIF converter btw? I used imgur here)
I still can't get over how much she looks like a child and how intentional it is. Ugh.
This smooth jazz shit is why I mained Jotaro in the GGPO version when I otherwise don't main the star characters of fighting games.
The strut could not be denied.
Man, you wanna talk about jarringly amazing animation that looks completely out of place, nothing in SF3 holds a candle to Elena's idle.
It is...unsettling.
I can't find a gif of Juri's walk animation from SFIV but that was godlike too.
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I love SF3 and Third Strike is my favorite fighting game ever, but it certainly was jarring to have such new and smooth-moving characters against what were basically remade old sprites
Slamtastic
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hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Birdie in SFV has good forward and backward walks but I can't find a gif.
What game is this?
King of Fighters 14
Is it me, or does Jotaro not have anywhere near this much swagger in the anime?
pla-pla-place holder
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Ugh, Arksys totally lost something in the smoothness of their animations once they went HD. There's a highlight on Noel's leg that like INSTANTLY pops up during her cycle, and that Platinum movement just has some limbs that look rigid. So they just make bad Gifs?
Compare that to Gordeau from UNIEL, who just looks smooth, and reminds me of how I felt about the Guilty Gears of old. They're higher res sprites, but keep the charm of older lower res ones very well, with a lot of tiny animation details that I swear they don't get enough credit for.
I can't find any gifs for Ash Crimson in XII or XIII either, which is a shame, as his breezy, nonchalant movement is fantastic.
Sylvie's walking animations are great too, much like Ash's. The best way to tell about a character in a fighter is always first through their animations and voices, not through story modes and such. Those, to me, will always just be complimentary.
Ok well, to contribute something visually:
Compare that to Gordeau from UNIEL, who just looks smooth, and reminds me of how I felt about the Guilty Gears of old. They're higher res sprites, but keep the charm of older lower res ones very well, with a lot of tiny animation details that I swear they don't get enough credit for.
I can't find any gifs for Ash Crimson in XII or XIII either, which is a shame, as his breezy, nonchalant movement is fantastic.
Sylvie's walking animations are great too, much like Ash's. The best way to tell about a character in a fighter is always first through their animations and voices, not through story modes and such. Those, to me, will always just be complimentary.
Ok well, to contribute something visually:
Megawarrior
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Who is this.
Swag for days
SatelliteOfLove
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M. Bison's forward walk animations in V are a work of art.
Haven't really played P4A, but is it just me, or is something off about his face?
For reference.
At least he got solid cloth animations.
He's from Under Night In Birth EXE Late. The name escapes me.
spazchicken
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No silliness, he's coming to give you the hands.
lol
That's that quarterback run stance.
Gordeau from UNIEL
All the Arcsys gifs in this thread are severely misaligned so they do not reflect what the actual cycles look in-game. The timing is wrong too.
In my experience Blazblue / Persona sometimes make use of "sub" animations and additional frames from "different" portions of the sprite set to compose a single animation. Those games make use of very subtle details that can probably only be seen if you're looking at the animation code directly.
Tyrant Rave
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we have a winner.
Everything about this is absolutely incredible.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Not really, it's just well animated floppy titties
...like I said, absolutely incredible.
ShinMaruku
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She goes "Lalalala" Then pulls out an Uzi, gatlike!
She wants you to cleave to your sonnets.
But man Lady Kstoute got the crown.
*cranks up Holy Diver*
Reizo Ryuu
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El-Guap-Cakes
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Still the GOAT
Not a walking animation, but still amazing.
Not a walking animation, but still amazing.
YESSSSSS
Smooth Operator
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In a world of 3D animations where clothes feel like textures or Physics simulations gone haywire, it's lovely to see 2D animation that really tries to illustrate that material is being world over skin and muscle, rather than just static decals. *Props to the Hilda post above, too.*
Would make sense. Would surprise me that NO ONE is able to rip them properly though, since I'm sure such things have been encountered in all manner of games before.
I just haven't enjoyed their in-between details much in a good long while, even when watching in game.
~Devil Trigger~
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Crazy Hair Necalli back walk
Hoya Destroyer
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Yeah. This is great. Probably the greatest. Those frames are silky smooth.
MvC3 Deadpool is a nice pick too. His goofy stroll and moonwalk are really well done.
I used to like the way Guiles hair moved when he walked backwards in SF2 as well.
Choppasmith
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BIGWORM
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Gordeau from UNIEL.