The Flow Between
In animation “tweening” refers to creating the frames that smooth out the action and make it read as a single motion. Traditionally, the frames which define a motion – the “key” frames – would be drawn be the lead animator,…
Category Animation
EverEnding DevBlog, December 2020: The Finishing Touch
Every month continues to be weird in new and interesting ways. I have to resign myself to getting less done during December at the best of times, what with all of the distractions of the holidays – this year, there…
EverEnding Devblog, October 2020 – Frames
This was not the best month for the project so far. As last month ended I was quitting caffeine and consistently having my ass kicked from the fatigue of doing so, and the tail end of that continued into this…
EverEnding DevBlog, September 2020 – Grass
At the conclusion of last month’s DevBlog, I mentioned I’d be spending a couple of weeks house-sitting, and that I wasn’t sure what sort of work I’d be able to get done during that time but that I hoped to…
EverEnding DevBlog, August 2020: Mist
Last month I had just started working on a system for transforming the color of sprites. I finished it pretty early on into this month, and immediately afterward made an post-processing effect which performed the same effect but across the…
EverEnding DevBlog, March 2020: Introductions 101 – Intro to Introductions
We’re at the end of the first official month of development of the current version of EverEnding. That’s a lot of qualifiers, but it’s still a milestone of sorts. Did it go well, you may ask? Did it go poorly?…
Everending Resurrection
Where We Were A little bit more than a year ago – actually, almost a year and a half ago – I decided to put EverEnding on hiatus in favor of working on a series of monthly projects. This worked…
EverEnding DevBlog, July 2018: Structures
Another month has gone by, and though a short vacation, a nasty little cold, and a number of other minor distractions got in my way, I still managed to make a little bit of progress. First, and most importantly, I…
EverEnding DevBlog, August 2017: Perspective
This month was a completely different kind of weird month than the last weird month – but weird nonetheless. I ended up taking around two weeks of vacation, between a planned family visit, a memorial service, and associated travel times. When…
EverEnding DevBlog, July 2017: Redesign
It’s been a bit of a weird month. I haven’t worked deeply on much, but made a lot of slight progress on different things, and have also made some substantial revisions to the game design. Well, first things first, I…