Great fan of your work Cyan I bought the RPG char template and im gonna be buying the rest in time. About this one I have a question Id appreciate your 2 cents on. How much would you estimate would it cost to animate these monsters? How much would you ask for? Normal boss animations, games like Crosscode, Hyper Light Drifter etc...
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Hello Prof. Xavier,
Thanks a lot for your purchases and I am happy that you like the assetpacks. I hope you'll take the time to rate, them or send me feedback via e-mail.
These monsters are designed to be used for frontal battlesystems (e.g. Dragon Quest, Lufia, Pokemon, Shadows of Adam), and/or classic 3d dungeoncrawlers (e.g. Lands of Lore, Eye of The Beholder) or 2D topdown dungeoncrawlers (e.g. Original Rogue and similar games, Stoneshard etc)
For 3 directional games those designs would be extremely difficult to animate, because with 64x64 pixels they are rather big and the way they are drawn does not optmally fit the "2D action rpg / zelda" approach.
In terms of how much it would be... that's totally hard to say, because it always depends on what animations are needed and all of them differ in design complexity.
Generally it is very time consuming to animate 3-directional enemies, which is why for now my assetstore does not offer these sprites.
However if the shop should get big enough it's definitely something I have on the agenda, but first I'd need to be able to dedicate more time to it. That being said, there have been a lot of developments and new assetpacks this year already.
Thanks for your quick and long response Cyan. I will for sure take my time to rate the assets I bought, which I am extremely happy with! My question had an element of wishful thinking since I already imagined the complexity of such work. I do hope to see more 2D Action RPG assets from you in the future. I would also like to suggest you do a Pixel Art Course, which I would gladly pay for. I bought the 2 best rated in Udemy and they are very good but im 100% confident you can do better. I will keep an eye on your work ;)
2D action RPG work is just by nature very time consuming.
If you want to learn something from me, I am offering personal tutoring sessions. Creating a course is a huge time investment, and I don't got the equipment nor the skills to create and edit videos on a professional level and yes, there are already basic courses around.
E-mail and all informations can be found in this doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxKADpF12u0udT5saRQuYTrTR1xZdcL4JWCLue3T8T8/...