Hello and good day!
For today’s update I’d like to announce the release of two asset packets!
The first one being the Spear Crow, part of a new wave of Animated Battlers more simple in design and oriented for general encounters, but still with all the animation options the bosses typically get!
SPEAR CROW
Librarium Animated – Spear Crow by Aekashics
As usual, you can grab it over at itch.io or claim it and dozen other battlers by joining us on patreon!
When it comes to the Spear crow, I wanted something silly but menacing. Most of my designs are always on a cartoony spectrum and the spear crow probably hilights that. it highlights it so much that I actually made a super silly “spit”animation for projectile animation motions for this one:
in-engine, the result is actually surprisingly fucntional.
PIXBATTLER STAN V2
Onwards to the other release, this one is actually a rework of Stan, one of the two free launch hero asset packs in my Pixbattler asset line!
This update marks a significant milestone for the Pixbattler project, as it updates the visual standards of this asset line to be fully compatible with what became the standard Librarium style over the years and also sets the tone for other updates in this series and eventual new entries!
For this release I remade Stan’s portrait, the old had compressed proportions, so it never fully fit into place with the other pixbattler portraits, this one sits at home with them in comparison and fully locks in the style for the upcomign new entries in the pixbattler series!
The map sprite was also pretty much remade! The old pixbattler sprites no longer fit in the style of Librarium full releases so updating these map sprites will be a vital step before tackling new pixbattlers, Stan is step one! we already had a stan reworked sprite in the sample project, but this one is an enahcned version of that one with irmpoved walk cycles and also fitting the pixbattler style better.
Last but not least, the meat of this update! the updated SV sheet battler.
I didn’t want to mess too much with the established pixbattler proportions, so this update had the objective of correcting some imperfections and animation issues, regardless of that, most of the active poses had to be fully remade, only taking inspiration from the V1 sheet! regardless, you will not see Stan clashing with other Pixbattler SV sheets as I go through them!
| Stan Going Wild |
Now, while Stan had almost everything redone, this wont be the case for all pixbattlers;
*When it comes to portraits,only Hilda, Roz and Lan will get a full remake
*Apolonia, Hina, Gladis and Sibil will get some minor tweaks and overpaints
*For SV sheets, practically all of them will be updated
*All remaining map sprites will be remade just like Stan’s to fit together and with other hundreds of Librarium assets.
Thanks for your interest and support in Pixbattlers and Librarium!
