Animals 2 Preview (Patreon)

Hello! Today I have a progress update on the upcoming Animals 2 pack.

About two months ago, I asked about interest for a potential Animals 2 sprite expansion pack. There seemed to be enthusiasm for the idea! Over the past month (July), I was working on these animals as a secondary project in between the other things that I've been working on. (My first priority is the regular patron releases, so these animal sprites are something that I do in-between.)

Here's the status update: right now, I have the designs and idle frames done for the whole set. There will be about 48 animals included in the pack (generally arranged in groups of eight). 

You can see an example above: I have these single-frame poses done for every animal that I've planned to include. They're laid out just like that on my working sheet (the example above is literally just a screenshot from my working file).

The next step will be the walk animations for all of these. Now that the main design work is all finished, the animations should go pretty smoothly.

As you can see, these animals are pretty big and detailed. It's a step up from the original animals pack. That's why it's taken a little longer than originally planned: these guys are big! There's also a realistic quality to them that's more in line with my current style. I think it looks a lot better for these type of animals.

There isn't too much else too say-- here's some more images to round out this preview post:

Arctic animals! I think the baby penguin is really cute..... .-.

Ocean animals and some exotic fish. The puffer fish will be two sprites so you can have him expand.

Some more variety for birds, based on suggestions from patrons. They'll have sitting(perched) pose as well as flying animations.

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Okay! Hopefully that preview gets you excited for this release.

Originally I wanted to have the whole set finished for release this week. Obviously that isn't going to happen-- but since all of the designs are done, hopefully I'll be able to jam out the animations fairly quickly, and we'll have a full release within a week or two.

That's it for today-- the next post will be based on a patron request. See you soon.

Thanks!