Ladies and Gentleman, the same animation software.
If anyone is in doubt…
Wakfu is the reason why I cock an eye at anyone who says that something is lower quality cause it’s animated in flash, and also is a great inspiration for what the program can do (and why, in spite of its flaws, I still use it.)
Low quality animation is over-tweened and often lacks proper easing. That can be done in flash, toonboom, pretty much any 2D animation software. Don’t say something is low quality because it’s made in flash when you mean it’s low quality because of shit tweening.
I hate to be that guy but…This Gif doesn’t prove anything.
That gif only proves the frames were pulled together in Flash as a movie clip. But it still doesn’t prove the animation was done in exclusively in flash. I mean before I would praise Wakfu for being “animated in Flash” but now that i understand how programs works I can’t help but play Rubilax’s advocate with this and be just a little skeptical.
All I see from that gif is a movie clip set on a tween to move. There are no individual keyframes shown (which you wouldn’t want anyway if you don’t want a cluttered workspace. You’d group that stuff). The purple frames indicate anything that’s tweened. So really when you observer them you can easily recognize that all these keyframes are just camera movements with another layer of effects (layer YugeO) coming in at 120 that is also a movie clip.
Point is these layers with few keyframes could be two things.
A movie clip (or graphic) holding assets drawn in Flash or
A movie clip (or graphic) holding imported assets drawn in another program. An image sequence.
Seeing what is actually inside those movie clips would be proof that Wakfu is animated in Flash but what’s shown isn’t proof.
It’s the same thing with After Effects. It’s one thing to say that something was done native IN after effects but anyone who’s ever used After Effects as a drawing tool knows how much easier it is to use After Effects as what it is. A Compositor. I think it would be more accurate to say that these shots were possibly rendered with Flash but that gif doesn’t show that it was indeed “animated” with Flash.
Whereas I see a shows like Johnny Test and The Nutshack and because of how the lines on the characters look, i can believe that it was both animated and rendered in Flash.
If you ever worked in Flash you’ve seen how Flash creates lines with is tools but then when you look at a normal still shot from Wakfu
It’s not as obvious to the point where even IF the core animation was done in flash, you could argue that it was cleaned up before or after it was shown on television.
I’m sorry for being such a Debby Downer. It’s just when I see this
I don’t think “Wow so this is what Flash can really do!”
I think “This would be considerably painful for a person or even a team of people to do animate something like Flash. I really hope they pulled external assets and resources or this would literally be hell.”
my roommate brought his speakers into the bathroom so he could listen to apparently the entirety of Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon album at an ungodly level while he showers
Konosuba is really wanting me to get back into the “Anime MMO” scene but all I can think of that’s as expansive as the show is Ragnarok. Tree of Savior maybe but Tree is just one long path and it got boring and For some reason I can’t see me going back to Tera or buying Final Fantasy
