[Super-tux-devel] More amusing sketches.

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

Nothing major, but you can see the progress I'm making on the wingling. 
There wasn't supposed to be this much work put into it, but apparently
there is :)  I'm making sure that the wings move smoothly.  The problem
with this is that the wings were not designed logically.... they
maintain an optical illusion of smoothness, but notice... you can't tell
if they're flat or thick in any area.  In fact, they are both at once.
The sane individual would just toss out the wings and redo them.  I'm
not sane.
Instead, I've developed a clever scheme on paper to figure out how I can
maintain this optical illusion and still make the wings flap in four
frames, as grumbel reccomended.  It's a bit like trying to rotate one of
Picasso's paintings, but I think I've gotten it to work.  You can look
at some of my sketches here:
http://www.lingocomic.com/gfx/goodies/supertux/wingling_concepts.xcf
Highlighted throughout all that is this really interesting skeletal
structure of the wingling.  Follows the wingling's design in everything
but the wings.
http://www.lingocomic.com/gfx/goodies/supertux/wingling_undead.png
The rest of the sprites I develop shouldn't take me nearly as long as
this one is.  Hope you enjoy!

Christopher Allan Webber


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