Rigged 2D Characters for Your Projects

[Upper Dave]

I'm using Spriter Pro to create many (many!) rigged 2D Shenmue characters and animations for those characters. I figured I'd share every character as I go, because I know there might be a few people who want to use similar things in their projects, or perhaps simply play around with posing Shenmue characters.

I'm doing this for my own fangame called The Hazuki Legacy, so you can expect many more. So far the only character I've rigged with bones is Ryo Hazuki, and it's more of a test run than anything else (I'd like to do them in higher resolution and with smoother edges). He currently has only 2 animations, but I'll re-upload it each time I add an animation to his project file, or when I replace his body parts with higher res images.


Each of the following files are saved in .scml format, which is an extension used for Spriter Pro projets. If you don't have Spriter and you'd like me to export an animation to Unity or even a sprite sheet image, please let me know:


Ryo Hazuki
Current animations: walk, run.


Example gif2:

[Esppiral]

Very cool.

[ShenmueTree]

This is really nice. I actually was doing something like this as well, didn't use any specialized programs though. I didn't even think they existed.

I did an idle animation of Nozomi though, I think that I posted an example before? Can't be arsed to find it at the moment.

[BayStone]

That's very cool.

"Hazuki Legacy" also has a great premise to it, I think. Although, Fuku-san's personality may not be the easiest to work with... maybe, but it could definitely be done. Very interesting indeed.

[Upper Dave]

This is really nice. I actually was doing something like this as well, didn't use any specialized programs though. I didn't even think they existed.

I have to work with a 2D animator for it, purely because there are just so many characters to rig up and animations to produce. Spriter Pro makes things so much faster.