Baxter, Crouching Strong Kick
Medium - Aesprite
Date - March 2021
Baxter is a bizarre character. He has long range normals and special moves that demand that he get close. Here is probably my favorite animation from him that you will barely see due to his sweep just not being good in gameplay.
Bernie Caddigan, Can't Fly from Reckoning FX
Medium - Aesprite
Date - June 2021
One of Bernie's grab supers has him chuck his opponent into the air, only to get shot by a rocket launcher's missile. This is the explosion from said missile. My way of animating explosions is very dream-like, I kinda just work in sequence and see where it goes from there.
SMOLLET, Intro
Medium - Aesprite
Date - October 2021
SMOLLET's purpose in Battle Craze I'm keeping a secret, but it isn't a full character. This is its intro before it, does something. It was animated in reverse, starting with the frame of SMOLLET unmelted.
Phantom, Intro
Medium - Aesprite
Date - October 2021
Phantom serves a similar purpose to SMOLLET. This is his intro before he, does something. I had a lot of fun with this one.
Phantom, Winpose
Medium - Aesprite
Date - October 2021
When Phantom wins, he becomes, this thing. He was once handsome.
Goliath, Raw Claw
Medium - Aesprite
Date - November 2021
Goliath is a brusier who packs quite a wallop with his special moves. This is a crazy command normal we made up as he needed something to combo into. I wanted to use all four of his limbs for something, and got inspired by Q's crazy claw swipes from Street Fighter 3.
Emi, Summer
Medium - Aesprite
Date - January 2022
Unlike other fire effects I've done for Battle Craze, Emi's sword swing flare was based off of sumi-e from old Japanese art. A proper reflection of her heritage.
Emi, Sunrise
Medium - Aesprite
Date - January 2022
Like Necross, Emi also has an overhead attack with a good amount of wind-up before landing the actual attack. In her case, it makes her airborne so she can chose whether or not to cancel into an air special move or a grounded one depending on the player's timing.
Lucy, Jumping Strong Kick with Asmos
Medium - Aesprite
Date - April 2022
Lucy is an interesting character to develop since she has a living weapon at her side, known as Asmos. In her original design pitch, she can have Asmos attack in tandem with her or set him in place to act on his own. Here's an example of the former in action.
GABBY, Special Winpose
Medium - Aesprite, FireAlpaca
Date - July 2022
I had an overly ambitious idea for a rare GABBY winpose inspired by a shot from The Thief and the Cobbler and I set out to attempt it. The larger frames were drawn in FireAlpaca while the smaller ones and the animation itself were done in Aesprite. A team effort.
Wallace, Command Grab Super
Medium - Aesprite
Date - July 2022 (Original), December 2022 (Revision)
An old idea for a Wallace throw reborn as a command grab super for two of his alternate Sides. I cut a lot of corners with the initial one (Re-using a lot of old frames) and the end result bugged me for a good while. I went back and revised the animation to better capture what I had in my head and it certainly shows.
Necross, Air Grab Special
Medium - Aesprite
Date - May 2023
Necross needed a nerf to one of her air specials so a follow-up was sprited where she would swing the opponent to the ground after catching them with her skeleton arm. Kelexo suggested something else where she would "ride em down and then kick em up to combo off of" but I felt like my take was much more streamlined to work with.