I spent a couple of hours writing a tool that converts all of the monster sprites into animated GIFs. I figure I'd share them. Here are some examples: And here's all of them: http://imgur.com/a/CDitT These are all facing to the right. Now that I have the tool done it would take about 20 seconds to make ones that all faced forward, or left, or whatever.
I neglected to add poor little Tacow to the gallery. Here you go little Tacow! If a particular animation seems to play too fast or slow it's because I completely ignored the specified frame delays in the sprite files. I just hard-coded a fixed delay. I might eventually add support for accurate frame delays. Fixed
I figured out how to set individual frame delays using ImageMagick. Tonight I'll actually parse the XML for each sprite and use the actual frame delays.
Wow, I just generated an obscene number of GIFs. 1,705 in fact. It's every possible animation of every monster sprite. (Assuming there aren't any bugs in my GIF making tool causing it to skip monsters or sprites.) Haha, there were bugs. It's up to 1,992 now. The first one looks like he's dancing. Witchy looks funny on a loop.
It might just be very difficult to see on the backgrounds of the levels where it appears... And it looks like it'd have to be TWO tails!
Neither had I, which is why I posted it. Here are some other (erotic) views: Hmmm I guess Thrusties don't animate when they get hit. They have two frames of hit animation, but they are both the same. If you zoom in on the second image, the appendage in question doesn't appear to come from his spine, so it's a... not a tail.
Oh lord, you're right. I pre-emptively have to say it's not David or Moom who drew this, so unfortunately they can't give us an explanation.
The old monsters were drawn by another artist (I've never met him, he had left working for Gaslamp before I joined testing.) Apparently he works at blizzard. He's responsible for all the plump monster butts I enjoy, but also...this.
Hmm, so he basically thrust the Thrusty graphics onto GLG guys... And he supposedly works for Blizzard... I'm glad I don't play any of their new games.
Hahahaa. Oh my goooood. There's probably a lot of terrifying stuff lurking in the unused files. But yes, I didn't do any of the pre-ROTDG monsters. THIS IS NOT MY FAULT.
That's definitely not required for the joke. Just having a creepy looking thing thrusting his hips at you is all that's required for the joke.
I rebuilt all the gifs from scratch, this time with proper frame timings. The new ones are on imgur. I also changed all death sprites to use a fixed 2 second delay after the first and last frames. Here are some examples.
