A Bad Idea
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Animator/Editor for SugarPunch and host of A.B.I.torials. Art, rants, and assorted shitposting. Fence Punching is a sin.
Joined January 2015
"Dragon's. 'dogma'? Which part of a dragon is that? Can you eat it?"
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The forgiveness arc of Salvatore Ganacci is astonishing. I've never seen someone whose debut was met with so much derision, only for them to gracefully win back all of that lost good will in a matter of days.
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It's amazing that they've actually managed to model Elena to resemble the Ikeno 3S illustration. This is *immaculate*.
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This is my contribution to my new favorite genre of Neco Arc Dances To Things.
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I feel like Guilty Gear was LONG overdue for a character design with the Slash hat. This is the LAST place I was expecting it, but DAMN they wear it good.
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Snake Style kung fu is such a rarely utilized martial art, I'm glad to see it show up in more fighting games.
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This screenshot of Cloud just not giving a single fuck about Barret's shit is full of such powerful energy.
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Ed this spin has better anticipation and key poses than any in-game animation in an MK game. If you have to question the "necessity" of a stylish spin during an action scene for a show about laser guns and space wizards, maybe you shouldn't be directing fighting games.
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I feel like I'm obligated to talk about this because I was the one who pushed this snowball down the hill. People raised this defense to me when I first made the MKX video, and if it isn't MK's goal to have snappy cancel-based animations, then that's perfectly valid. HOWEVER. .
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It's really cool that Chun's Burnout stance is her closed-fist stance reminiscent of her SF2 stance. #streetfighter6
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I am astonished at how every single new character in Strive just blows all my expectations out of the water. This game is *still* the best animated fighting game on the planet, and it keeps getting better.
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Watching pixelated blobs bouncing around a maze turn into Horror Horse Yuri within a matter of weeks was the last thing I was expecting to capture my interest this month. Thank you #HorseRaceTests @snakesandrews
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If I had a dollar every time you could play Street Fighter vs KOF vs Tekken vs Final Fantasy in a fighting game, I'd have two dollars. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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I've noticed that recent fighting games are having a paradigm shift toward "aggression mechanics"; SF6's Drive Rush, Strive's Wild Assault, Granblue Rising's Raging Chain, even Tekken 8's new Heat system. We're moving past the age of footsies and neutral, and into an age of unga.
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Dear @monsterprom , please let me take this adorable idiot murderer to prom. Thanks. #monsterprom
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We need a new name for this emerging subgenre of "rebellion against dystopian megacorporations through the power of rock". I'm calling it 'Rockpunk'.
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SEASON 2 TOURNAMENT ARC LET'S GO #HORSERACETEST
Horse Race Test Tournament: Here Racehorses Transcend Saturday May 3, 2025 at 7 p.m.
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Everyone who is losing their shit about the Skullgirls changes needs to calm down. Future Club was founded in the wake of a sexual harassment and abuse scandal that they themselves were the victims of. Their values have changed, and I stand by any change they choose to make.
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Flames of eternal life clash against the shadow of death. #takamori #callilust #ArtsOfAshes #HololiveEN #holoMyth
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Really cool detail I noticed: they've actually rigged Whip's. uh. whip to deform and change shape to match the smear frames from her original sprites. It really gives those lashes some snap! This was also present in her KOFXIV iteration as well. #KOF15
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@bahnism @maximilian_ Why does Max look like he's about to drop the hottest album of 2016?
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Also, this defense claims that animations aren't supposed to cancel or snap into one another, but MK gameplay *absolutely* has cancels. So it sounds like their animation goals are conflicting with their gameplay needs and they aren't willing to budge on the matter.
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MK's animations are rooted in its mechanics; attack strings and precanned sequences that flow seamlessly into each other. There are fighting games that also play like this, namely 3D fighters like Tekken and DOA, and they do not suffer the same problems that MK does. >>.
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MK animations suffer because someone is directing their animators to make strange and unnecessary restrictions. Like how characters *must* be facing 180 degrees towards or away from the camera for "readability" no matter which way they face, or how they can't break model. >>.
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And to bring it back to the original point, I think it's a dishonest deflection to blame animation faults on "stylistic choice". There are animation principles that apply to *all* styles of animation, principles that MK animation continues to fail at demonstrating.
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My only claim to fame. I'm sorry @maximilian_ .
what is the most out of pocket fighting game moment?.
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@its_topched_bro I was so pumped out at how perfectly Laios came out that I had to try the rest of the crew, but it kept getting progressively more cursed and I couldn't stop.
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My dumbass when I'm caught blocking during Wings of Light.
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Tekken subtitles continue to baffle me. Asuka's actual line is 「うっさいわ！それわこちのせふるや！」which, accounting for her accent, should translate to something like "Shut up! That's *my* line!". She's even gesturing to herself as part of this expression.
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A god-like herald, sent by an astral entity from beyond time and space to judge humanity, who then turns coat and fights on their behalf after discovering that food is delicious.
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Some of it boils down to mechanical necessities; MK has a weird case where characters sometimes don't move when struck, so it can feels like when characters hit each other, both of their feet are nailed to the floor. Maybe it's necessary for gameplay, but it looks and feels bad.
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Jacqui's mach kick from #MK11 has been bothering me for the past 48 hours, I had to find out why. Zack leads each kick with a twist of his shoulders and hips, giving each kick a nice whiplash effect. Jacqui maintains a stiff posture and just flicks her leg back and forth.
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This question has been on my mind as more people share their thoughts on Guilty Gear Strive, and I have to ask: why is it that "player expression" is only related to combos? Aren't individual players expressive in ways other than how they maximize damage?.
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@TrueUnderDawg1 The two statements are not incompatible. If you think Hell Sweep is badly animated or that Alex's stance is jank, you have perfectly valid reason to. But it does not immediately vindicate MK animation. It is literally the worst animation out of a Triple A fighting game franchise.
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"Hi. I'm Connor, the android sent by Cyberlife. I'll be taking that Soul Edge, now." #SOULCALIBURVI #DetroitBecomeHuman #Connor
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But more to the point, the way this move looks in motion leaves no question about what is happening. She gets to use her full range of motion, and the motion is beautifully timed and space to make that shoulder charge feel weighty and powerful.
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@maximilian_ "The Bloodlord suddenly felt the cobblestone beneath give way. There he fell, into the endless, empty abyss. He had ascended."
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Speaking of facing and visibility, I did a little experiment; here's key poses of Kokoro in DOA6 performing a Tetsuzanko shoulder strike, from front and back, wearing her most visually disruptive costume. Surprisingly, her posture is actually still visible in both shots. >>
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@ykarps European fantasy is overplayed. Give me Asian fantasy, middle eastern fantasy, pacific island-inspired fantasy, aboriginal fantasy.
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Also love that all of Kimberly's basic idles and movement completely change during Hype Mode. Really amazing details that you might miss in normal gameplay (Also the tag from her CA remains on the floor if you landed it!)
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Now that I'm getting a better look at it, I think they've actually done a pretty good job considering what they're working with. I'm proud to say that our boy is back.
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Netherrealm fighting games are the worst-animated fighting games on the planet, period. Every other fighting game has figured out how to animate, NRS has not. It is a solved problem that they refuse to fix.
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It looks like ArcSys is streaming a webinar about posing 3D models for fighting games? This is worth a watch if you appreciate the importance of keyframes and key poses in animation!.
【無料セミナー申し込み受付中！】.GUILTY GEAR Xrd開発スタッフが送る アクションのためのボーン配置TIPS. シリーズ過去2回分のセミナーも一挙公開！.今すぐお申込みを！！. 配信期間：2020年12月7日11:00～12月25日15:00. #ダイキンCGセミナー #キャラクターモデリング
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I think Nomura's finally snapped. Years of ridicule for belts, zippers and euclidean geometry hair have forced him to embrace Norm Chic. The modern Nomuric Hero, ready to embark on a legendary journey with his $500 designer polo shirt.
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@maximilian_ To my knowledge that's literally every cat owner. The dog could be doing the Daigo parry and they'll still film the cat.
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@ryuthirdstrike I stand by that shareholders should not have creative control over the development of playable characters. But yes, I forgive Salvatore.
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@MK11Jokes One of my professors in college once taught me "A bad animation can be a good animation if you put it in the right place". Salvatore's animations are not good as "traditional" fighting game animations, but they are good Salvatore Ganacci animations, and that's why they work.
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@its_MesZa Except that there *was* legitimate reason to be upset; before anyone knew anything about Salvatore, he was revealed *right* after Ronaldo. Having not just one but *two* unrelated real life celebrities who happen to be favored by Saudi shareholders is cause for concern.
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If you do this and you think you're "helping" theater employees by "giving us something to do on our shifts", you deserve every cancer on the planet. We have to work the hours REGARDLESS of whether or not you justify yourself being a fucking pig.
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"Lore" in fighting games serves to facilitate the game; the game does not serve to facilitate the lore. A fighting game's story serves the primary purpose of providing the framing device for why all these characters are fighting each other.
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Only NRS could botch the keyframe of a *clock*.
Also the clock doesn’t display a real time. (Big hand can’t be on the 9 while the little hand is on the 12.).
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God damn the lighting and the smear lines how the fuck do they do this.
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Part of me hopes it's because people like my insights about the stuff I like to share and talk about. But in reality it's probably
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There's something uncanny about seeing Jojo given the "Hollywood Movie Poster" treatment. It's kind of impressive how you can take something with the aggressive visual styling of Jojo and compose it in such a boring way.
🦋 2 weeks until JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure STONE OCEAN Episodes 25-38 The Final Episodes 🦋
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My doodle for tonight chronicles my favorite moment from @maximilian_ 's Dark Souls 3 stream.
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"I don't know how it happened, officer, he just told me he was going to look at a few key poses. A few minutes later we found him dead at his desk."
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I wish I were good enough at Mortal Kombat to make it to a streamed event and then get banned for saying the animation sucks. #whydidnrsdothis.
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Think about the most popular multiplayer genres of the past few decades; MOBAs, MMOs, Battle Royales, RTS, TCGs, and so on. These are highly technical games with complex rules and metaplay, but people will GLADLY climb over those hurdles before they even TOUCH a fighting game.
Fighting games are held to a higher and more difficult standard than all other competitive games. Deadlock a shooter moba with literal paragraphs on items and dozens of purchables with crazy builds gets a pass but god forbid you add a motion input and 99% of gamers crumble.
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Okay everybody, what is the most useless piece of fighting game lore that you know?.
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@maximilian_ @DoomAssistMe @INFINITE_SGE @unrooolie You got to get the Edge of Soul, to carry on! #BladeandSoul
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"Perhaps if I had this 'Soul Edge', I might be able to defeat the Shadowlord. " #Nier #SOULCALIBURVI @yokotaro
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Ruby's new Distortion Drive directly mirrors a sequence from the original Red Trailer. #BlazblueCrossTagBattle #RWBY
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Man all I wanted to say was that the new aggression mechanics are neat and I think the shift towards them is interesting from a design standpoint. Why does everything have to turn into an argument?.
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I love that one of the films in your video shop in Zenless Zone Zero is an action flick with cars starring Vin Diesel and Jason Statham literally called "FAMILY"
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@maximilian_ The Bloodlord comes to Yharnam in search of lore and ancient knowledge. His path is one marred in blood and secrets.
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