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Thank you! That's a good idea! Exactly now there is a lot of work in queue and I'm trying to free some time to push all the stuff to finish. So, as always - no promises, but I've put a bookmark on this request and I will see what can I do)

Done! 

26 animations in two versions: many frames - smoother and reduced frame qty - lightweight. Both are in spritesheets and uncompressed frames.

Have a nice day!

Somehow I didn't thought about it ))) I will make one later

If there will be some kind of game you will finish, please, post a link to try it :D

Thank you! I'm in love with 2D games, so I do lots of free 2D assests so anyone can start with. 

Here is my email: engveemax@gmail.com 

Hi! Good idea! But this can take some time... there is too much work in real life and huge amount of work with other sprites. Added your request in list, just keep finger on pulse to know about updates )

Done! Reuploaded zips of 8 frames lightweight insect animations - one with uncompressed frames and one with RGBA4444 optimized spritesheets. Thanks about feedback, much appreciated!

Oh, really it is! There is something strange happened with upload interface. But insect files are ready, I will reupload them morning. Thank you very much! 

Thank you! I'm very glad to hear that! 

Please, if you will find something wrong with files, or need different native frame size - leave a comment)

Yes, I noticed and I know this can be frustrating. And here is no good notification and conversation or personal mail system. The only way to know in advance is red text in top of site.  Anyway, I sent a messsage on your email (as***0**ic*@*mail.com). Maybe you will need to check spam-folder, because there are special private links for you. Please, check it and answer if all is working fine

 Thank you for you support! Have a nice day!

Greetings! First f all I need to know, what is exact frame quantity limit? I mean do they need to be exactly 8 frames or can be i.e. from 6 up to 12 frames or 10? Just to know how many keyframes I can put into.  If need exactly 8 - no problem, I'll try to adopt accurately.

I think it's a good idea to update a such variation. It can be very handy for old devices, for designation of world map events, for step-by-step or chess games and monster points like in Heroes 3. I'll try to do updates, but you need to be patient - this can take a piece of time, keep finger on pulse.

Hi! I had uploaded special version of isometric Medusa with 8-frame length animations.It is available on page of isometric version: https://engvee.itch.io/animated-isometric-medusa I think it's not the best choice for realtime active games, but very handy for game- or world-map monster-spawn points, like Heroes 3. Anyway, it's ready to go. There are 3 files - game-ready spritesheets of 180p, 256p and 320p frame-size; separated frames of same sizes and a huge source 1024x1024 pixel frames for downscaling, packing, resampling and so on. If you need another framerate on some specific animation, leave a comment. Hope it would be helpful )

Keep your hand on pulse - today I will try to release 8 frame update for isometric version.  And in few days full-framerate version too. There are some important improvements and fixes and other spritesheet sizes too

Reducing framerate can be slightly difficult. Some animations are more stable, like idling, so every nth frame can be used. In this case animation will loose its smoothness but you can do so if this is okay. But uneven animations, like attacks, have long phases of preparing and short phase of attack itself. So with simple frame-skipping it can result loose of crucial frames. 

That's why you can reduce frame quantity, but for better result you need to manually pick frames that will keep completeness of animation.

P.S. I'm planning to update Isometric Medusa sprites in different spritesheet sizes and in 16 directions with 22.5 degree step. With stable 8 main directions and better angles with another - extended - 8 directions

Hi! Here it is: https://engvee.itch.io/animated-isometric-medusa

The answer is: Yes! Now I'm testing new animation instuments and have some characters to release. I wish I can go faster, but there is a lot of work in reality and lack of time.  Also, I'm making beat-em-up projection for sideview assets.

Thanks, you flatter me, there is a lot of stuff much better than mine ))) Most of thanks are to 3D artists.

 Anyway, specially done so, that all the side-view stuff is absolutely free.  Just create!

Hi! Idle animations added: with sword, bow and unarmed. Hope it will be helpfull

It's the best way for pixel-art games with very small sprites, like 32x32. But with heavy sprites, like 320x320 each frame will hold 320w*320h*4rgba = ~400kilobytes. ~100 megabytes per one animation in all directions. And of course a long time to load. 

With a very small amount of memory you need to load each spritesheet on the fly. With some greater volume you can keep spritesheets of adjacent animations. In example for 8 direction: character now is «Idling» in 45° . So 0° and 90° «Run» animations can be predictively preloaded. If character is now «attacking» with «Attack_01» in 180° you can preload «Attack_02-03» before animation end to make a combo with various attacks AND keep in memory «Idle» in 180° to switch to it if there is no attack commands from gamer. All another animations can be unloaded.

Also, your engine must be quick and well-coded enough. Graphics data must be shared between routines BY REF and NOT copied many times BY VAL. Tiles and enemies, that are not in the space of two screens from camera, must be unloaded. Sprite games are running smoothly even in 30 frames per second (instead of 60) that gives you a lot of free CPU-time.  And so on...

In example, two routines: one, that is reading a million lines txt file line by line will end in 10 seconds while another one that is reading the same file by few megabytes binary chunks will read entire file in 0.01s. Unfortunately, I saw game engines with code of first type. Today's engines can keep millions of frames and tiles at the same time with optimized CPU and memory usage.

When I was doing games in the past, I found tonns of platformer and top-down sprites, but nothing valuable in isometric projection  on all the entire internet space. So I decided to create them by myself and use in RPGs, tower-defence, RTS and turn-by-turn games, like Blizzard, Microsoft and others did and I tested many approaches to have smooth and stable rendering.

I have in plans to code a program with an isometric level where you can test isometric characters, but there is a lot of work in real so unfortunately I have no free time at this point.

My english is very bad but I hope it's readable and somwhere understandable )))

Hi! This is a very abstract question and solution highly depends on what engine do you use. Most of game engines have some API to load sheets into sprites. Each frame of different animations has the same center point.  When you need another animation you can just load another sheet file (and unload old one). 

Some very long time ago I had some doubts about this, but after many tests I found, that most of game engines are able to load hundreds of frames from disk memory without any notable game freezes, and thousands with only slightly framerate slowdown from 60fps to 40. This means that you can load new spritesheet from disk memory for another animation just on the fly. But of course is better to load a sheet instead of thousands of separated frames from disk. I'm posting separated frames because they are non-optimized full-color and maybe somebody will want to make some another kind of sheets format. 

The same approach was in games, like Diablo, Baldurs Gate, Age of Empires,  Stronghold and others. And world level landscape, trees, buildings, water and other tiles were preloaded on the fly when main character was near these game places.

The only exceptions are some visual-block-programming game construction kits, where you cannot dynamically load assets (or this is very complicated)

Hi! Here is an update without skulls on Orc's belt. Hope it would be helpfull ;-)

Hi! You're welcome! Here, I've made a video, check it, if want to learn or just interested: 

Hi! Thank you! This idea is already in todo list. I can't promise them in the nearest future, but I will try to do it asap

Hi! Sorry about late answer, I had too much work in reality. In few days I can update one more version without skulls. Is it still actual?

Front view full-height sprites are also available for skeleton and voodoo-doll )

Also, there already is "Front View for selection screens.zip" (2 animations in 256p, 320p, 512p and 640p game-ready spritesheets and separated frames also included + shadow layer) for Isometric Crab Warrior. It can be used with 2D Sideview Crab Monster too (for platformers, runners, etc)

Yes, of course

But due to lot of work in reality, this will take a while)

• Full-height static images added to use on selection screen, titles, dialogues, etc. (Full-height static images.zip added)

But sorry, no full-height animations, just static images. Hope this will be helpful )

Brilliant! 

There is a small problem with «Idle_KG_2» - it looks like hurt animation instead of simple idling. Character is tilting back like she she caught a hit.

Yep! 5 pounds are already yours, bought it!

First of all: your character is big enough. It's awesome! Among all these babies of -16 or -32px size)

My advice is to post here some/more cool paid characters.

In example I have found tonns of mages and knights or skeletons. But only one over all the internet sprite of redhead gunwoman with poor animation stack but awesome dynamics, cloth phys and lightning in drawing. I mean that even today gamemakers want some cool new stuff ))

I wish you good luck and have a nice day! Thank you!

Greetings! It would be great to have «Shield Block» idle animation for completeness)  Then I'll buy this cutie)

Thank you!

Great Job!

Hi! Awesome work, really! Will these pretties be available in a simple .png tileset? 

Mmmm, as for me, the page theme is too dark, so I don't even see what I'm typing))

Character looks amazing! There is lack of big-sized pixel characters. Most of them are around 32px, while I'm using 64+ pixels height.

Some other animations will be very cool to see 

yes, I'm working in this direction now

It's interesting to add some beat-em-up specific movements to new/existing characters. I will bookmark this idea!

Hi! You're welcome: sideview skeleton

Update: there is something strange with itch.io server. I can't edit posts, add images, links are not working properly.

But there is a sideview skeleton version already and it's free. Try to go from my main profile page. If not, try later, because exactly now itch is lagging

Thank you! Unfortunately, I have no time to remodel bikini zone to make fully nude. Maybe in future.

Also, Barbarian will be updated very soon in half-nude mode)

谢谢你！ 现在好游戏不多。 我希望每个开发人员都有东西可以开始，无论他们是否有钱聘请美工。 希望译者翻译正确。 祝你今天过得愉快！

Hi! I was too busy and now I have some leisure time. So can you explain, what do you mean «nude»? I can make some kind of Amazon, but there is a question: to make her fully nude ( is this okay and useful? ) and/or to keep some kind of bra/bekini.