Very talented animator Warren Goff shows how to approach animations as they do on League of Legends. I found couple of things that caught my attention:
1 - I found a refreshing way to focus on in-betweens and how important is the resting time after a pose is hit.
2 - You can clearly see, there is a formula on the way they create animations but nevetheless there is a lot of focus on creativity and unique moves.
3 - Working for an isometric point of view lets them exaggerate over the top key poses and silhouettes become super, super important to be able to read from far away moves.
4 - Love the way they handle capes, guns, artifacts, also dynamics and particles. Gives extra love to the overall motion and complements very well the character appeal.
5 - In matters of gameplay I think they have the luxury to create slower actions from user reaction to gameplay action. The blending system is very intuitive and is treated as usual in other games.
6 - Check Warren´s vimeo. Love his style in personal pieces and timing is just sweetttt!! :)
Xayah Animation Breakdown League of Legends from Warren Goff on Vimeo.
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