Hey /v/,
Freelance 2D animator here. It's very likely that my next paying gig will be an animation for Warframe, which is a game I know very little about. The devs will supply reference models, backgrounds etc, but I'd like to get my own research in to make sure the animation actually matches what players of the game expect the characters to move like, etc.
Currently, the script I've been handed is full of terms, locations and weapon names that are kind of meaningless to me, having never seen them in action.
Do you know of any decent Youtube beginners' guides or longplays of the game? I've been looking but holy shit these Let's Plays have such insufferable commentary.
Good luck, my man.
Its a pseudo-mmorpg, and "f2p" for that matter.
You could just, you know, download and play it?
And since the factions and assets are repeated for both starting content and end game content, you'd get your full experience of EVERYTHING the game has to offer after a few hours.
i am looking forward to the results, good luck.
They move like ninja.
Sexy, sexy ninja.
>>332734296
archwing missions take at least a few days before you can experience that
then there are skill trees for a whole new set of abilities you cant experience for probably weeks
youre so full of shit
>>332733912
I've got your long play right here
*grabs dick*
>>332733912
This image bothers me. No one actually uses Grineer weapons.
Right?
>>332735871
>>332734296
he could ask for a ton of plat so that he can experience it all by buying off the market
>>332733912
I would just spend a little bit of time playing it yourself. Not too much since it's a pretty shit game but enough to get an idea of what the world is like.
Also put in a good word for me. I've tried applying there with no response as a software dev.
>>332736037
Tonkor would like to have a word with you
>>332735871
And you're being remarkably literal in this discussion. Warframe is, to this day, still a skinnerbox with bare bones gameplay but just to counter shitpost
>Implying arsewing animations are different from one another
>Implying arsewing weapons behave radically different
>Implying there's any depth behind the two tilesets they have for arsewing
>Implying one of them isn't literally just asteroids and the occasional wreckage
>Implying ANY of this takes days to experience
>Implying you can't simply buy an arsewing and some weapons right from the start
and on to Focus
>Implying their animations differ beyond a couple visual effects
>Implying the skillsets themselves differ radically within their own trees let alone compared to others
>Implying Focus is anything more than yet another 'endgame' grind that with exception to may two of the classes, do absolutely dick all to change any flow of situations they can be used in
So you are so crammed full of horseshit your skin is rending from the stress of trying to maintain a humanoid form as your organs and skeletal structure decay in the filth and lies you have become.
>>332736305
>skinnerbox
stop watching extra credits.
>>332733912
Just play the game for yourself or maybe do some animation exercises to loosen yourself up.
Seeing that you have an animation gig lined up it sounds like you have everything in order. I think it fair to say that at this point there is no point in asking for /v/'s opinion on anything, since you actually have a life. Good luck guy, best of wishes
>>332733912
Honestly - Total Biscuit did a pretty good expose on Warframe recently and he breaks down the essence of what makes the game appealing - you should look that up. It's a fantastic primer for an outsider.
>>332736424
Thanks for the (you) and further proving my point. If a term not unheard of is the only thing you can respond to then I don't need to go on.
>>332733912
go to /wfg/ and ask
>>>/vg/wfg
>>332736619
>telling someone to go to a general thread
>>332736249
Crutch weapons don't count.
>>332736619
All they talk about is their superexclusive fuccboi clan
It's all about the ass meta. Valkyr is currently leading.
They're space ninjas
That's really all you need to know.
Space ninjas in nanomachine bodysuits
>>332737321
the only time warbros gets brought up in wfg is for people to shitpost about how dead it is
>>332733912
>Freelance 2D animator here.
post work
>>332737458
all they ever do in /wfg/ is shitpost but they know the game better then anyone,even the fucking devs sometimes
Read the wiki, visit the /vg/ thread, turn on a random twitch streamer and mute it, or just play it. It's literally F2P on PC, PS4, and Xbone.
General idea behind it though is that you play as a space ninja in the form of walking, humanoid armor (frames) controlled by alien children to fight enemies which include a race that clones too much, a race that only cares about business and robots, infested zombies, and void tainted versions of said enemies. It's a F2P grinding game focused on speed and acrobatics with players rushing through levels and decimating anything in the level. You grind to get more equipment which allows you to grind for more equipment.
Just do us all a favor: if you're animating something try to make it where shit won't clip everywhere. One of the biggest issues the game has is that it gives players the ability to wear long flowing capes and tassels despite having animations where that stuff gets caught, stuck, flips out, or just goes right through the character. There's a reason I stick to animations for my frames that don't have a lot of body movement. The more simple and subtle the better since every frame has ridiculous neon lights and they fly around 24/7.
Please convince Steve the game needs jiggle physics.
>>332733912
the game's community manager is kinda qt. post pics of her when you get hired.
>>332733912
>mfw played this in anticipation of Destiny
>mfw this has more character customization options than Destiny
>mfw your classes actually affect your health and ability stats
>mfw this has more worlds to go to than Destiny
>mfw this is free and I dropped $180 on Destiny
>>332737838
>Just do us all a favor: if you're animating something try to make it where shit won't clip everywhere.
It's 2D frame by frame animation so that won't be a problem, at least.
>>332739987
What's up with old guys wearing those fucking hats indoors just to hide their male pattern baldness?
>>332733912
>>332737678
>post work
You might even have already seen some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU&lc=z13bc3bhot3cezv3g23uyfpb5q3rjv05o04
>>332741776
Holy shit, like really my man what ever DE is paying you won't be enough. Not sure if it will be spoil-y or break a NDA or something but do they have you working under an ugly deadline?
>>332740418
Free to a point. You still have to buy inventory slots and most cosmetics cost money too. But otherwise it's fun with friends.
>>332733912
You just have to remember that Ivara is best frog
>>332741958
Haha, cheers. I can't really say much (and the deal isn't finalised yet. I just figured it best to get some research in just in case) but hopefully the dealine will be enough for me to make the characters looks nicely detailed and pretty crazily animated.
If the thing actually goes ahead.
>>332742110
Wasn't she named after a snail?
>>332739987
God damn it, geoff. Stop acting like a sperg and plow that snobby whore.
>>332733912
AGGP, Quite Shallow
>>332733912
Grineers are the most lovable villains ever
ENDLESS GRIND
PAY TO PROGRESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YsryLqQ1rY
>>332742264
Let me try to be helpful then. Best tip, warframe showcase videos are your friend. They give you a solid rundown what a warframe does and maybe some ideas on what they should do.
Grab some kung fu animu, not something with a really high power level like Dragonball. That's pretty much how frames should fight.
I have not played in a while so I'm sure I'm not the best person to help
>>332742675
>pay
Yes, playing the game and selling your loots for plats to braindead underage edgelords is way too unconvenient, revv up that CC for fast gratification
>>332742264
The gameplay for the most part is running into a room and turning everything into red goop, but if you want an better picture of the world it's in reading the various lore paints a better picture.
The rhino p codex, Ember, everything cephalon semaris has, etc. The entries are all on the wiki. There's a few lore discussions on the warframe forums that I usually end up glossing over, though people often get the Dark Sector and Warframe lores mixed up.
Dark Sector was a previous game DE made and most references in Warframe are mostly homage and nothing more.
>>332742770
desu it feels like they completely dropped the whole martial art, ninja and infiltration style for some more technobits sci-fi, big guns and explosions style
Watching someone play well will not show you how to make the character move in any realistic way. Mobility has always been abusing one specific part of physics to go shazbot levels of fast for a little bit.
Ideally it really is just kung fu ninjas with guns. A warframe can leap from Point A to Point B every time if not obstructed, and every melee weapon they pick up has an ancient martial art to go with it.
Post the names of things they might want in, if you're able. We could help find some simple showcase videos (or even make some)
>>332742675
that comment section
filled to the brim with warframe fanboys
>>332733912
Honestly the warframes move like regular people, but if you read the abilities and look at the idle animations of each warframe you'll get the archetype of the character.
>>332733912
Just paint giant dildos on every thing and on everyones forhead.
You should be fine.
>>332743179
I would compare them to jedi now. They all have super jumps after parkour got upgraded and powers are flashy.
>>332743179
Oh yeah. I really forgot all about the guns. The 4 parts of warframe then
>Gunplay (really not sure how to give this style. Mesa got it but not sure about everyone else)
>Melee (Most honorable kung fu)
>Sneaky sneaky (With the fact with got frames like Rhino, Captain Nemoframe, and a few others I'm not really sure how to do this)
>WARP FUCK UPS (pretty much the source of the frame's powers and general plot device)
>>332739987
THICK
>>332733912
Good luck, and watch the videos on the dev's YouTube account. The trailers, the frame profiles, etc.
If you're planning to use pic related, then model him after the Naked Commando trope. Volt used to be one, and that's why his description keeps mentioning "gunplay" but I dunno if they changed the way he plays. Also, what these guys said >>332743441 >>332743412
>>332736305
>Implying you can't simply buy an arsewing and some weapons right from the start
You can't until you finish the quest.
>>332744914
Kubrows too. People just simply buy all the parts then you see in region chat "How do I collar?!?"
>>332733912
Got anything specific you want to know about? I've been playing for a long ass time and while I don't agree with half of the decisions DE makes, I still like it because of the aesthetic and doing what >>332742927 said is pretty fun.
>>332741776
Also goddamn, Otaking? I saw your post on /m/ a month ago about a fighter shooting something, was that related to this?
>>332744678
Gunplay, I'd style that up by combining it with the other aspects, trick shots, fancy reloads and such
>>332742675
I quit the game becuase fucking DE kept nerfing my mains. I started playing at launch and there was a bug where Rhino's schematics wouldn't drop, took me almost a month to get it, and then they nerfed it. Then I started playing trinity, and they fucked up the invulnerabilty as well. they can go fuck themselves.
Just half-ass it like everything else in the game. It's utter shit.
>>332742430
OP asked for non insufferable commentary
