Thanks for the thoughts, regardless, “Just rework the upper parts” is a large amount of work and commitment. Pretty much having to edit every single animation and make it look natural as it goes into a different stance than what was captured. So any change we make is a big one, needs to really count.
We’d gotten a couple of basically bare knuckle brawler/MMA pose suggestions, that would kinda work. I like the Sub Zero pose, that would look cool, maybe both hands relaxed and fingers curled a little. Not as tense and dramatic as Sub Zero or Bruce Lee, a bit chill.
If the notion is it “fits in with other animations/styles” then that’s the kind of pose we need to look at. Does a similar Sub Zero etc. pose fit the bill? It’s different enough but the same enough? We’d have (as we do now) a regular Stand to the “Ninja” Stand transitions, so there would be a transition from “normal” to “ninja” ready stance for the Ninja set of moves.
It’s true, so trying to use the whole pack but only the lower half/modifying the upper for each animation for the end-user is also a ton of work… which is what we pay to get ahead of. Not your fault though technically, the pose is shown in the advertisement so. Just saying, if I’d known how much work it was gonna be to try and use and then blend those anims in to others of different packs (not necessarily yours). I wouldn’t have bought it. I like everything about it except that pose…lol
Well there is nothing wrong with having a unique and standalone set of anims either. Though having them blend and not be bland is still good when selling to masses. If I want to use the cartwheels, handsprings, rolls etc with Kubolds pack or even your mobility pack or boxing pack… I gotta go outta my way to blend the arms out since he starts with that pose and ends with it after each action and it’s a dramatic pose. If the pose was more generic I could probably just use the animset as a whole for what I want in that case. shrugs
Yeah, if the whole Ninja pack was based around the “Mobilty” normal Stand than it would dovetail perfectly into a lot of stuff. But of course that wouldn’t be much of a “fight ready” stance either and be weird. Seems the relaxed Sub Zero stance my be a good compromise, and easy(er) to blend in and out of to connect elsewhere. The wide sideways stance also makes for weird blending I imagine. Maybe a very quick hop/jump into and out of the ninja/fight stance would also solve a lot; he could from a Relaxed Stand quickly jump into fight ready or simply “pop” directly into a fast punch/kick which finishes in the fight stance, then with the quick jump back to Relaxed Stand if the fights over. So modified upper body pose and quicker snappy transitions to/from Relaxed Stand might be a good compromise to connect things all together better.