StarKid: Character Development 2: Rigging and Animating "Starkid"

Over Christmas I successfully managed to teach myself how to rig and animate (again) and StarKid is now ready to be placed into the game. The rig isn't perfect, but for someone who has only tried 3D animation once for my 3rd year of uni it's definitely not bad.

Overall I did 32 animations. These were for: 

Collecting an Aeon 

Aerial Attack 

Aerial Attack (Falling) 

Comet Dash 

Crouching 

Crouch Walking 

Dash Jump 

Dash Jump (Falling)

Death Animation for falling into a bottomless pit

Death Animation for dying through loss of health 

Double Jump 

Double Jump (Falling) 

Drill Spike 

Drill Spike Landing Impact 

Grounded Spin Attack 

Homing Attack 

Homing Attack Finisher Pose 

Idle 

Ledge Grab 

Ledge Hang 

Ledge Jump 

Shimmy Left 

Shimmy Right

Running 

Single Jump 

Single Jump (Falling) 

Spin Jump 

Taking Damage 

Triple Jump 

Triple Jump (Falling) 

Walking 

It would take ages to Gif them all so here are a few examples.

Single Jump Animation

Double Jump Animation

Spin Jump Animation - This animation will occur when bouncing on jump pads.

Drill Spike Animation - An Aerial Slam move that sends StarKid shooting towards the ground at high speeds

Death Animation

Next I'm going to hook up StarKids animations to unreal engine and get each animation playing to their relative mechanic. After that it's a case of populating the level with colours so the level looks less...prototypey.