Starting to use some of the methods real artists use, and it’s definitely made the drawing/animation process so much…

Starting to use some of the methods real artists use, and it’s definitely made the drawing/animation process so much easier. Here I used references to draw a keyframe sketch and then broke each part out into layers.

This isn’t actually the final pose I went with–mostly I tweaked the sword position and arms–but making the needed changes were much simpler when I can just mess with the “Arms” layer quickly, or grab the “Sword” layer and rotate only that layer.

I’m almost done with the player combat animations (at least this iteration). As a reminder, I’m on Patreon, and if you support me there (even for just $1/month), you’ll be able to see all of Tav’s combat animations later today–a week earlier than everyone else!