Animation: Tonda using the jump rope -nude

Hey everyone!

This week I’ve done some animation for Tonda; one of the stranded wrestlers that was picked up by the Green Beetle.

The story so far told us that the wrestlers needed to keep up their strength by exercising. And in the upcoming update, Keen will provide them with some exercise equipment for that. Now one of the things Tonda asked for, was a jump rope -which she will use herself. And so I made an animation for that!

And below you can see a few steps of how I did that.

Step 1

As a start,  I first drew the pose for frame 3, which is the middle frame of the animation. Then I cut that image up in parts, and copied it around to create a basic jumping loop of 6 frames.

Now as you can see below, I animated Tonda while being nude.  However, in game she will be wearing her suit at first.  But I didn't animate her with her suit here, because it's easier to start with the nude version, and add clothes over it- then doing it the other way around.

Step 2

Here I cleaned up the 6 farmes, and added some more refined motion to her hair, boobs and legs.

Step 3

And in the final  step I added the jump rope.

And here I  also doubled the frames from 6 to 12. These extra 6 frames not only made the  animation smoother, but  will also allow me  to play it in slow motion in slowmotion!

Next

(updated:) In the animation above the rope has a bit of an odd timing, as BMLH correctly noticed in the comment :)  So I'll dive back into that & fix it!

And to wrap things up,  I’m also thinking about giving keen a stopwatch to time Tonda while jumping. We would then see keens hand quite big in the corner of the screen. And this  effectively allows you to adjust the speed of these sporting animations by a simple click on it’s buttons :)



Well, I hope you like it so far!



All the best,

and a happy new year!

-Robin