Can I just take a moment to admire the video production? Like seriously the only thing that equals the modern and slick editing is the videos content itself. Like DANG everything looks so clean
I'm reminded of one of the unit spotlight videos for Total War: Warhammer, where they likened dwarfs attacking to "coiled springs". The game has a (relatively) realistic aesthetic and the units are often seen from a great distance, so they needed to do some squashing and stretching to effectively sell, for example, a dwarf smashing an opponent over the head with a great hammer as tall as he is.
@@Jeff_the_Hobo This one, in fact. It's pretty short, but gives a good demonstration of exactly this principle: th-cam.com/video/S69sIifVvlY/w-d-xo.html
It's incredible how you come up with new things to say (and, of course, new examples to focus on) every time you do an video on Squash & Stretch. Given how many times you've done that by now, that's a good thing...
This is excellent, and so well done. I remember the original Squash and Stretch attempt had essentially distilled down into Jak and Daxter: the episode. That was good for a focused dive, but this feels like the whole picture, especially the applications on models with more rigid, realistic proportions. Can't wait for the rest of this series! (But you probably can; take a well earned break.)
I’m replaying Mario 64 at the moment, and I’ve actually noticed that Nintendo was doing some light squash & stretch even in what was one of their earliest attempts at a 3D game. When you punch and kick, Mario’s fist and feet stretches and grows for just a split second during the apex of each animation. It’s barely noticable, but it definitely adds a bit of extra “oomph” to each hit. Of course there’s also the title screen where you can stretch Mario’s face, even if that’s not the type of squash & stretch where talking about here :P
Nathaniel Grizzle It’s not really used for added momentum or sense of force in the animation, though. It’s just there for the player to mess around with (and at the time, for Nintendo to have an impressive tech demo to boast about, as that was its initial purpose). Mario’s punches and kicks on the other hand squashes and stretches for the purpose of an added sense of momentum and force.
Mario's been growing his weird hands and feet in each Smash game as a direct reference to Mario 64 (since of course Smash64's model was practically the same one). Also in the DS remake if you hit a Goomba with the third hit of a character's attack, the Goomba flies into the air and gets super stretchy before it dies.
This turned out great! Even when I already know what you're talking about, something about your delivery just makes it new and exciting and I walk away feeling like I've learned a thousand lessons in a single moment. Keep it up, Dan!
I was waiting for that McCree shot.. but I didn't realize the reason Widowmaker is blue is because she's literally made of rubber (4:43) Edit: OK Dan, that edit and timing of the credits background was just you showing off.. wasn't it? :D Thanks for listing the music ^^
I don't know if you ever had fun getting stuck on a rounded ceiling with someone else, but there they get stuck in the stretched state, and lucio and widow are uncanny
@@lucianodebenedictis6014 That _does_ sound fun, in a Goat Simulator kind of way. Except it's surprising because it's not in a crappy game built on the principle that bugs are funny, which can be good or bad depending on if the surprise is funny or frightening.
I've had clients push back very hard against both squash and stretch, and smears, very much to the detriment of the final product. Even if these fundamentals are old news for most of us, it's a powerful tool of reference to source to back up your position; being able to have credible veterans of our specific industry showing the value and extensive pedigree of these principals is a handy tool in a demonstrative way. Even if it's not directly informative to practitioners, your series is still useful as a top notch source to reference when trying to avoid wasting time educating team mates and clients as to why they should step back and let the experts do what they were hired to do. I for one have pasted links to your previous entries on more than one occasion, and have you to thank for shaving hours (if not days) of educating others after being asked "why does that limb look broken" or "is this a rendering error on that frame?"
One of the reasons I think Jak and Daxter are as animated as they are, is Naughty Dog had experience with Crash Bandicoot. To get around the limitations of 3D animation at the time, instead of using a skeleton and joints, they instead made the character entirely out of vertexes and textures. That way they could exactly control the deformation across the character model
Held this one out for primetime dinner viewing and holy crap it did not disappoint. I love learning all these lessons from you. You present them clearly and neatly, in a fun and engaging way, and it's always an inspiration to try and find the tools to try and make basic animation of my own.
I was just rereading Richard Williams "the animatiors survival kit" when i got the message that you uploaded a video about the 12 principles of animation. Nice. Also if you wanna get into animation and don't know where to start I highly recommend the animatiors survival kit. It is seen by many as the best book about animation.
From a physics perspective, you might hear about Poisson's ratio, which is the amount that gets pushed out in the sides (/pulled) when something squashes (/stretches). Rubbery materials have a Poisson's ratio such that their total volume should stay nearly constant. Enjoyed the video!
This just reminds me of how big Wario's head and fists get when he does his smash attacks in Smash Bros, it has to be one of the most exaggerated cases of this in the entire game!
Excellent overhaul of the squash and stretch video. I love the 2D example footage selection. Manipulating the ball example on screen makes animation feel approachable and gives a feeling over really applying the principle on the spot rather than just being shown the result.
Love seeing these techniques pointed out. A lot of the time they're done in such a way that it's an "invisible" technique where the viewer isn't really sure why it looks so good.
Despite this being a very short video in comparison to most others on TH-cam, I found it engaging throughout. I really enjoyed all the examples and it made me realize why I prefer pixel art styled games and such. Good work, it's nice to be able to learn something while applying it to something you love like video games. You're the man, Dan
Here you go! www.infinitelooper.com/?v=1kFRU_xBZnE&p=n#/367;369 Works better when the window is minimized so it's not having to load the video. Give it a few cycles and it blends into a continuous loop.
Another good example of the less cartoony approach to this is Warframe's Bullet Jump. The input actually lends itself really well to the concept: you simply press the jump button while crouching (squashed) and your Tenno will launch themselves headfirst (stretched) in whatever direction your camera is pointing with a nice flourishy spin.
It's a tall ask but I'd really like to see you go over the attack animations from Kingdom Hearts 2.I'd ask for both 1 AND two but that video could take MONTHS of your time while 2 already has various combos, forms, abilities and Roxas in them. Whatever you end up making, I'm so happy to see such a nice, well presented and constructive look at animation!
This video must have been fun to get footage for. Seeing the full animation of Abu turning into a camel in slow•mo refreshed me as someone into goofy animation.
I remember seeing I think a special feature on Jak and Daxter, one thing that was special about the character animation in that game is it the characters didn't have skeletons, they were literally vertex clouds that morphed from pose to pose. Apparently animating that way was really flexible but it was such a pain in the butt that they had to change to a more conventional skeletal model for the later games, that gave them much better facial expressions and subtlety but they lost a bit on the squash and stretch.
Smash 64 and Mario 64 also have great uses of squash and stretch, each of Mario's attacks in both games being heavily emphasized by them. Nintendo somehow made it look excellent even at the early stages of console 3D.
Loving these lessons. I'm learning animation (3D specifically) and I want to understand more with the 12 principles. Thanks so much for explaining and I can't wait for 10 more!
I've been going through and watching pretty much all your videos including the ones from extra credits and they have been a lot of help with the game I've been working on by myself it's my first project and I couldn't have gotten this far without you it's gonna be a 16bit ,top down, turn based RPG it seems like an extreme first project but I've also been using tutorials to help me get to grips with the app I'm using again thanks a lot
It's utterly crazy how appealing squishiness is in animation. Those two scenes from Steven Universe really stood out to me. Pink Heart Girl (Spinel?) looks incredible in how she moves, she's so fluid and vibrant its a bit unnerving, but the earlier animation of the main three characters looks almost wooden in how little they get to exaggerate, especially for such a silly movement as planting someone full-body into the ground. With how little Pearl squashed after getting thrown into the ground, it looks like she should have shook like a gong or something from how exaggerated Amethyst's throw was. It's a nitpick, but something a little extra could have really sold her rigidity or the throw's strength instead of just rotating her character 90 degrees with a smear as the inbetween.
Love this series, keep it up! One tiny criticism I have is that you list some of the advantages of the technique right in the beginning (0:16-0:32) before even showing any demonstration of the technique in use. I personally would have prefered it to see the examples first and then hear about the advantages. Otherwise fantastic video!
Doom 2016 had a lot of squashy stretchy-ness. Mostly to show how weird the gross, flabby demons where but some glory kills had some good strechy-ness to ‘em to show how strong Doom guy was able to hit them I also played it for the first time recently so its on my mind lol
Slime Rancher is basically Squash and Stretch the game. With all the different ways the slimes move when they're bouncing, eating, hitting walls, getting sucked into the vac-pack, etc.
I'm going to watch that new Steven Universe movie right now!!! I haven't seen it yet so I'm super excited!!! I hope it's good!! I LOOOOOVE Steven Universe!!
My favorite example of squash and stretch in a game is Amaterasu's jump animations in Okami. A little went a long way to help along the ink brush style.
You can cheat deformation in 3D with types of motion blurs such as after images, smudging, lines, you can try deforming textures which have the benefit of being 2D, interaction with environment (dust trails and such), use a few frames of motion blur that isolate the subject and contort that only perhaps.
Small nitpick, but in the future could you try to notate the game on screen with a little text in the corner or something. Some of the games look neat, but I can't figure out what they are. That is literally the absolute worst thing I could say about these videos and their quality! You're doing amazing work and I couldn't complain if I tried. You're a great teacher and very skilled at delivering information in a digestible way that my young nephew interested in game design can easily understand! I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! Keep up the amazing work! P.S. My pup is currently sick, and requires all of my disposable income at the moment. But I just want you to know you would be, and most likely will be soon, the first and only channel or content creator I support on Patreon or YT membership. Sharing knowledge is an honorable path to take and you have my respect, and hopefully soon... some of my money! I hope to see your channel grow and see you get the recognition and respect you deserve for the amazing videos! (Enough ass kissing.. back to the video.. again... ;D lol)
I can't help but think of Dragonball FighterZ. They animated 3D models with like 2D characters, with inconsistencies and squashing & stretching, to maintain that anime feeling in a fighting game, and it looks amazing for it.
Me: Is interested in animation and clicks on this video Also me: Was watching Playframe playing Hollow Knight a couple days ago Oh that's neat Dan's an animator Idea: you should talk about the animation of Hollow Knight I've heard there are tons of meticulous and beautiful details.
World of Goo did amazing things with squash and stretch in the goo balls you manipulate - including emphasizing the variety in different kinds of goo and their different properties.
Love your videos man! I think I might know why squash and stretch isn't used much in games. I've been working a lot in some game engines like Unreal, Unity, and Godot, and it seems some game engines don't play nice with the scale value that you've applied in a 3D software. It's a problem of what you see in the 3D software isn't what you get in the game engine. I don't know if other game engine have this same issue, but I imagine things are similar. Obvs there are still solutions to getting scaling to work in games but I'm thinking scaling might be best to be animated in the game engine itself. That's my hypothesis at least.
0:50 Nevermind the squashing, the ball isn't even contacting the floor. 1:28 I get the squashing on impact, and stretching on rebound, but doesn't stretching before impact make it look like the ball was anticipating the impact, like a living creature?
You should do a video on the metro games. All of artyom's first person animations are fantastic, expressive, and full of physicality. Most FPS animations sorta just focus on the arms. But metro last light and metro exodus have the best first person animations I've ever seen.
Yeah, I knew Jak and Daxter were gonna be in here somewhere. I'm sure some insane indie dev take notes from this video and make a game that looks and moves just like cartoons. You know, other than Cuphead's developers.
I'd like to ask for a general breakdown of why the free running animation in the various Assassin's Creed games feels so different between titles. Not necessarily a full look at each individual entry, but probably a focus on why Black Flag felt more "cartoony" than Unity did. It was a criticism I saw from someone who didn't enjoy a free game (even though they completed it, which boggles my mind). I'm personally a fan of all of them and I felt that Unity was off compared to the others in that they felt slower, somehow? But their comment on the game made me take a step back and kinda look at the differences between titles and for quite a few of them they felt exaggerated, except for Unity which was far more "realistic" in a way. I do know they did motion capture for that one so perhaps real world movements are inherently slow when it comes to video games? I'm curious to hear your thoughts and input on the subject.
Question, what are some of the tricks do doing squash and stretch on a 3D Model in a fashion like Jak and Daxter or Mario Odyssey? Is it rigging elasticity to a specific area?
It's funny to compare Spinel, who in-universe has the actual superpower to squash and stretch, to all of the other examples from animation of characters who are just normal but have been given exaggerated squash and stretch animations to sell their movement!
CGI ANIME (movies and broadcast) has used the techniques like you said in Guilty Gear and DB FighterZ video But i have a question Can a studio make an anime cgi like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games? Like the smoothest animation and being able to capture the source material is astounding 🤩
Can I just take a moment to admire the video production? Like seriously the only thing that equals the modern and slick editing is the videos content itself. Like DANG everything looks so clean
Well you cannot have a video about animation with ugly editing.
@@jeromealday614 is that a challenge? Seeing as how I've no relevant skills, knowledge, or equipment whatsoever, I think I could.
This is also the technique most misunderstood by casual consumers, usually because someone took a screencap and shared it.
this and smearframes
yes, but it's still funny to look at
@@Kokurorokuko I agree, I think posting screenshots of smearframes is funny, but what I personally hate is when people treat it like a mistake.
when someone posts a smear frame to prove that animation in "insert title" is bad, i lose braincells
"Hi, I'm Dan Floyd; and this.. is Animator's Tool Kit."
Still pretty much Game Maker's Toolkit since it's talking about the applications of this in video games specifically.
humouroushawk I approve
Game Maker's Toolkit Ha
That's EXACTLY what I thought!
I'm reminded of one of the unit spotlight videos for Total War: Warhammer, where they likened dwarfs attacking to "coiled springs". The game has a (relatively) realistic aesthetic and the units are often seen from a great distance, so they needed to do some squashing and stretching to effectively sell, for example, a dwarf smashing an opponent over the head with a great hammer as tall as he is.
@@Jeff_the_Hobo
This one, in fact. It's pretty short, but gives a good demonstration of exactly this principle:
th-cam.com/video/S69sIifVvlY/w-d-xo.html
Can I request that, in future episodes, we have a thing in the corner saying what game/tv show/etc. you're getting footage from?
It's incredible how you come up with new things to say (and, of course, new examples to focus on) every time you do an video on Squash & Stretch. Given how many times you've done that by now, that's a good thing...
yep
Okay, so I’m not going insane by thinking I’ve seen this (basic premise) of video like three times. I guess he’s just trying to get it right?
3:09
"stretching parts of the character out to create a smeared imitation of motion blur..."
(Looks at McCree)
*wheeeeeezze*
McWheeeze
This is excellent, and so well done. I remember the original Squash and Stretch attempt had essentially distilled down into Jak and Daxter: the episode. That was good for a focused dive, but this feels like the whole picture, especially the applications on models with more rigid, realistic proportions. Can't wait for the rest of this series! (But you probably can; take a well earned break.)
I’m replaying Mario 64 at the moment, and I’ve actually noticed that Nintendo was doing some light squash & stretch even in what was one of their earliest attempts at a 3D game.
When you punch and kick, Mario’s fist and feet stretches and grows for just a split second during the apex of each animation. It’s barely noticable, but it definitely adds a bit of extra “oomph” to each hit.
Of course there’s also the title screen where you can stretch Mario’s face, even if that’s not the type of squash & stretch where talking about here :P
No that big head is probably the only place in the game with squash and stretch as we know it.
Nathaniel Grizzle It’s not really used for added momentum or sense of force in the animation, though. It’s just there for the player to mess around with (and at the time, for Nintendo to have an impressive tech demo to boast about, as that was its initial purpose).
Mario’s punches and kicks on the other hand squashes and stretches for the purpose of an added sense of momentum and force.
@@CrossfacePanda I know that, I'm saying the animations on it have squash and stretch
Mario's been growing his weird hands and feet in each Smash game as a direct reference to Mario 64 (since of course Smash64's model was practically the same one).
Also in the DS remake if you hit a Goomba with the third hit of a character's attack, the Goomba flies into the air and gets super stretchy before it dies.
This turned out great! Even when I already know what you're talking about, something about your delivery just makes it new and exciting and I walk away feeling like I've learned a thousand lessons in a single moment.
Keep it up, Dan!
I was waiting for that McCree shot.. but I didn't realize the reason Widowmaker is blue is because she's literally made of rubber (4:43)
Edit: OK Dan, that edit and timing of the credits background was just you showing off.. wasn't it? :D
Thanks for listing the music ^^
I don't know if you ever had fun getting stuck on a rounded ceiling with someone else, but there they get stuck in the stretched state, and lucio and widow are uncanny
@@lucianodebenedictis6014 That _does_ sound fun, in a Goat Simulator kind of way. Except it's surprising because it's not in a crappy game built on the principle that bugs are funny, which can be good or bad depending on if the surprise is funny or frightening.
@@timothymclean me and my friend can break ANY game hehe
Streched lucio is really visible even in normal gameplay. When he's about to land he looks like a weird line
I've had clients push back very hard against both squash and stretch, and smears, very much to the detriment of the final product. Even if these fundamentals are old news for most of us, it's a powerful tool of reference to source to back up your position; being able to have credible veterans of our specific industry showing the value and extensive pedigree of these principals is a handy tool in a demonstrative way. Even if it's not directly informative to practitioners, your series is still useful as a top notch source to reference when trying to avoid wasting time educating team mates and clients as to why they should step back and let the experts do what they were hired to do. I for one have pasted links to your previous entries on more than one occasion, and have you to thank for shaving hours (if not days) of educating others after being asked "why does that limb look broken" or "is this a rendering error on that frame?"
One of the reasons I think Jak and Daxter are as animated as they are, is Naughty Dog had experience with Crash Bandicoot. To get around the limitations of 3D animation at the time, instead of using a skeleton and joints, they instead made the character entirely out of vertexes and textures. That way they could exactly control the deformation across the character model
Held this one out for primetime dinner viewing and holy crap it did not disappoint. I love learning all these lessons from you. You present them clearly and neatly, in a fun and engaging way, and it's always an inspiration to try and find the tools to try and make basic animation of my own.
7:08 Hey, I recognize that one! :)
Wonderful video!
I was just rereading Richard Williams "the animatiors survival kit" when i got the message that you uploaded a video about the 12 principles of animation. Nice.
Also if you wanna get into animation and don't know where to start I highly recommend the animatiors survival kit. It is seen by many as the best book about animation.
Thanks for the recommendation!!
Chrishy may he rest in peace
From a physics perspective, you might hear about Poisson's ratio, which is the amount that gets pushed out in the sides (/pulled) when something squashes (/stretches). Rubbery materials have a Poisson's ratio such that their total volume should stay nearly constant.
Enjoyed the video!
This just reminds me of how big Wario's head and fists get when he does his smash attacks in Smash Bros, it has to be one of the most exaggerated cases of this in the entire game!
Kazooie's Neck:
Excellent overhaul of the squash and stretch video. I love the 2D example footage selection. Manipulating the ball example on screen makes animation feel approachable and gives a feeling over really applying the principle on the spot rather than just being shown the result.
Speaking of squash and stretch, take a look at Sonic the Fighters! It's literally Squash n' Stretch heaven!
It consumed the rubber
Love seeing these techniques pointed out. A lot of the time they're done in such a way that it's an "invisible" technique where the viewer isn't really sure why it looks so good.
Heck yeah!
I immediately thought of the Jak and Daxter fist attack while reading the title of the video, it's such a good example of stretch-y animations!
Despite this being a very short video in comparison to most others on TH-cam, I found it engaging throughout. I really enjoyed all the examples and it made me realize why I prefer pixel art styled games and such. Good work, it's nice to be able to learn something while applying it to something you love like video games. You're the man, Dan
I feel like you are one of the very few that do animation videos correctly so thanks for this.
Animator: So how much squash and stretch do you want for Spinel's animation?
Rebecca Sugar: Yes.
Spinel is based off old 30's style rubber hose animation because she is literally of a bygone era, that's why her animation is so exaggerated.
6:08 not gonna lie, now I just want an hour loop of Dan going "Squash, stretch"
also, I feel dumb for forgetting Dan is actually a 3D animator
Here you go! www.infinitelooper.com/?v=1kFRU_xBZnE&p=n#/367;369 Works better when the window is minimized so it's not having to load the video. Give it a few cycles and it blends into a continuous loop.
I live for these uploads.
Another good example of the less cartoony approach to this is Warframe's Bullet Jump. The input actually lends itself really well to the concept: you simply press the jump button while crouching (squashed) and your Tenno will launch themselves headfirst (stretched) in whatever direction your camera is pointing with a nice flourishy spin.
thanks this is pure gold, cant wait for the rest 10 episodes
Thank you for creating these episodes! :)
I just realized that squash and stretch reflect timing/ spacing with your key frames on the time line.
I feel I should have realized this sooner.
It's a tall ask but I'd really like to see you go over the attack animations from Kingdom Hearts 2.I'd ask for both 1 AND two but that video could take MONTHS of your time while 2 already has various combos, forms, abilities and Roxas in them.
Whatever you end up making, I'm so happy to see such a nice, well presented and constructive look at animation!
This video must have been fun to get footage for. Seeing the full animation of Abu turning into a camel in slow•mo refreshed me as someone into goofy animation.
I remember seeing I think a special feature on Jak and Daxter, one thing that was special about the character animation in that game is it the characters didn't have skeletons, they were literally vertex clouds that morphed from pose to pose. Apparently animating that way was really flexible but it was such a pain in the butt that they had to change to a more conventional skeletal model for the later games, that gave them much better facial expressions and subtlety but they lost a bit on the squash and stretch.
Smash 64 and Mario 64 also have great uses of squash and stretch, each of Mario's attacks in both games being heavily emphasized by them. Nintendo somehow made it look excellent even at the early stages of console 3D.
This video made me realize just how amazing and expressive Kingdom Battle's animations really are.
I'd absolutely love to see an episode about creature animation using horizon zero dawn as an example
Loving these lessons. I'm learning animation (3D specifically) and I want to understand more with the 12 principles. Thanks so much for explaining and I can't wait for 10 more!
I've been going through and watching pretty much all your videos including the ones from extra credits and they have been a lot of help with the game I've been working on by myself it's my first project and I couldn't have gotten this far without you it's gonna be a 16bit ,top down, turn based RPG it seems like an extreme first project but I've also been using tutorials to help me get to grips with the app I'm using again thanks a lot
3:16 Good ol' Poppy. Was hoping you'd use her attack as an example in this episode!
The Hotel Transylvania movies are a great example of squash and stretch
You have awesome videos dude. Keep doing that! I really enjoyed watching them and helped a lot.
Now I want to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit for some reason...
Because it's really good probably
Bless the youtube algorithm. Awesome video, editing, and relevance to today's trends!
Great work as always
Great video, great channel, and my favorite principle!
It's utterly crazy how appealing squishiness is in animation. Those two scenes from Steven Universe really stood out to me. Pink Heart Girl (Spinel?) looks incredible in how she moves, she's so fluid and vibrant its a bit unnerving, but the earlier animation of the main three characters looks almost wooden in how little they get to exaggerate, especially for such a silly movement as planting someone full-body into the ground. With how little Pearl squashed after getting thrown into the ground, it looks like she should have shook like a gong or something from how exaggerated Amethyst's throw was. It's a nitpick, but something a little extra could have really sold her rigidity or the throw's strength instead of just rotating her character 90 degrees with a smear as the inbetween.
That poppy stretch is incredible
Love this series, keep it up! One tiny criticism I have is that you list some of the advantages of the technique right in the beginning (0:16-0:32) before even showing any demonstration of the technique in use. I personally would have prefered it to see the examples first and then hear about the advantages. Otherwise fantastic video!
great video as always
This was fantastic!!!! Can't wait to see more!!!
Doom 2016 had a lot of squashy stretchy-ness. Mostly to show how weird the gross, flabby demons where but some glory kills had some good strechy-ness to ‘em to show how strong Doom guy was able to hit them
I also played it for the first time recently so its on my mind lol
Slime Rancher is basically Squash and Stretch the game. With all the different ways the slimes move when they're bouncing, eating, hitting walls, getting sucked into the vac-pack, etc.
3:08 Why the long face partner?
YESSSS YOU SHOWED SPINEL AND OVERWATCH
I'm going to watch that new Steven Universe movie right now!!! I haven't seen it yet so I'm super excited!!! I hope it's good!! I LOOOOOVE Steven Universe!!
Felt great to see TAWoG at 3:30 =D
I remember your jak and daxter video about this!
cool thing i noticed: in splatoon, the inklings and octolings actually have squash n stretch in their heads for their walk cycles!
This Video is actually amazing, great content!.
My favorite example of squash and stretch in a game is Amaterasu's jump animations in Okami. A little went a long way to help along the ink brush style.
You can cheat deformation in 3D with types of motion blurs such as after images, smudging, lines, you can try deforming textures which have the benefit of being 2D, interaction with environment (dust trails and such), use a few frames of motion blur that isolate the subject and contort that only perhaps.
Easily one of your most insightful videos!
Small nitpick, but in the future could you try to notate the game on screen with a little text in the corner or something. Some of the games look neat, but I can't figure out what they are.
That is literally the absolute worst thing I could say about these videos and their quality! You're doing amazing work and I couldn't complain if I tried.
You're a great teacher and very skilled at delivering information in a digestible way that my young nephew interested in game design can easily understand! I'm looking forward to the rest of this series!
Keep up the amazing work!
P.S. My pup is currently sick, and requires all of my disposable income at the moment. But I just want you to know you would be, and most likely will be soon, the first and only channel or content creator I support on Patreon or YT membership.
Sharing knowledge is an honorable path to take and you have my respect, and hopefully soon... some of my money!
I hope to see your channel grow and see you get the recognition and respect you deserve for the amazing videos!
(Enough ass kissing.. back to the video.. again... ;D lol)
I can't help but think of Dragonball FighterZ. They animated 3D models with like 2D characters, with inconsistencies and squashing & stretching, to maintain that anime feeling in a fighting game, and it looks amazing for it.
Me: Is interested in animation and clicks on this video
Also me: Was watching Playframe playing Hollow Knight a couple days ago
Oh that's neat Dan's an animator
Idea: you should talk about the animation of Hollow Knight I've heard there are tons of meticulous and beautiful details.
World of Goo did amazing things with squash and stretch in the goo balls you manipulate - including emphasizing the variety in different kinds of goo and their different properties.
Arc Systems is a good reference for animation. the new Guilty Gear's and Dragon Ball Fighterz animations pull off some crazy stuff.
The background/editing on the end card is so extra and I love it
Nice video! I look forward to next year when you teach us about timing and squash and stretch again ;)
Hot dang! That's a good intro!
Love your videos man!
I think I might know why squash and stretch isn't used much in games. I've been working a lot in some game engines like Unreal, Unity, and Godot, and it seems some game engines don't play nice with the scale value that you've applied in a 3D software. It's a problem of what you see in the 3D software isn't what you get in the game engine. I don't know if other game engine have this same issue, but I imagine things are similar. Obvs there are still solutions to getting scaling to work in games but I'm thinking scaling might be best to be animated in the game engine itself. That's my hypothesis at least.
I remember doing the rubber ball thing in a college game design class, while at the same time learning to use Adobe Animate
0:50 Nevermind the squashing, the ball isn't even contacting the floor.
1:28 I get the squashing on impact, and stretching on rebound, but doesn't stretching before impact make it look like the ball was anticipating the impact, like a living creature?
Not necessarily. It establishes the ball Is accelerating
I love your edition style, it's simple but awesome, how did you edit like that?🤔
PD: Good video 😁
A whole video on Spinel would be really cool!
Well this is a game channel
3:54 *Ahem* *Ahem* Crash Bandicoot.
I'd love to see a video about the animation in Rain World
You should do a video on the metro games. All of artyom's first person animations are fantastic, expressive, and full of physicality. Most FPS animations sorta just focus on the arms. But metro last light and metro exodus have the best first person animations I've ever seen.
Can anyone tell me where this Sonic animation @ 7:48 is from?
Can you a video about final fantasy? Your videos are amazing!
Awesome insight
What sonic game is this ? 7:48
so fun to watch
Yeah, I knew Jak and Daxter were gonna be in here somewhere. I'm sure some insane indie dev take notes from this video and make a game that looks and moves just like cartoons. You know, other than Cuphead's developers.
If you ever talk about smear frames a good example of 3D animation would be Lethal League Blaze.
This topic reminds me of the new guilty gear trailer featuring May. Her dolphin was effectively squashed and stretched.
Anyone know what the game is at 4:52?
I'd like to ask for a general breakdown of why the free running animation in the various Assassin's Creed games feels so different between titles. Not necessarily a full look at each individual entry, but probably a focus on why Black Flag felt more "cartoony" than Unity did. It was a criticism I saw from someone who didn't enjoy a free game (even though they completed it, which boggles my mind). I'm personally a fan of all of them and I felt that Unity was off compared to the others in that they felt slower, somehow? But their comment on the game made me take a step back and kinda look at the differences between titles and for quite a few of them they felt exaggerated, except for Unity which was far more "realistic" in a way. I do know they did motion capture for that one so perhaps real world movements are inherently slow when it comes to video games? I'm curious to hear your thoughts and input on the subject.
this is not an interesting topic, some of ubisoft's inner studios got the movement right and some didn't. that's it
What game is it at 4:55 ?
What game is being shown at 7:15? It reminds me of Dead Cells, but I don't think I've ever seen a chicken run in that game.
Question, what are some of the tricks do doing squash and stretch on a 3D Model in a fashion like Jak and Daxter or Mario Odyssey? Is it rigging elasticity to a specific area?
It's funny to compare Spinel, who in-universe has the actual superpower to squash and stretch, to all of the other examples from animation of characters who are just normal but have been given exaggerated squash and stretch animations to sell their movement!
Back when I played Jack and Daxter I remember noticing that Jack's shadow would pull in half sometimes when he jumped.
CGI ANIME (movies and broadcast) has used the techniques like you said in Guilty Gear and DB FighterZ video
But i have a question
Can a studio make an anime cgi like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games?
Like the smoothest animation and being able to capture the source material is astounding 🤩
that thumbnail brings back flashbacks
4:53 game?
It's 1 am and I should be sleep but this appeared in my subscriptions.
*I have no regrets*
i was just recently think that just in the past few years squash and stretch has become common in 3d games and was barely used before
i love your videos
thank you
They use a lot of squash and stretch in Dragonball FighterZ on their 3d animations on some of the close up moves!