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GatLingGanDhi Mar 2, 2014 @ 4:18am
Animations in The Banner Saga
I am a 2D/3D game artist from Germany and I was just wondering how they made those AWESOME 2D Animations. Are they drawn by hand frame by frame? Which Software did they use? Maybe someone can tell me (maybe the developers themselves ;)). I would really like to know the workflow.
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Twelvefield Mar 2, 2014 @ 1:35pm 
The animation studio has a big credit in their crawl; I imagine you could contact them directly.

I don't know what software they use, but DigiCel FlipBook is tremendous for its price point and a very high reccomendation from me, a classical animator. That and a Wacom Cintiq will have you covered for everything you saw in the game.
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NogardDerNaerok Mar 2, 2014 @ 6:33pm 
You're going to want to read (and watch) this, first and foremost:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-saga/posts/547567

Quite inspiring, really.
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Aleonymous Mar 3, 2014 @ 6:16am 
It's mostly Flash animations, I believe. Stoic hired a pro studio called "Powerhouse Animation" for most of that work -- http://www.powerhouseanimation.com/portfolio/banner-saga/

Check out this guy's post too (at Stoic forums) -- http://stoicstudio.com/forum/showthread.php?3105
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Grit Grimdark Mar 3, 2014 @ 10:56pm 
Yeah Powerhouse is based out of my home town and they are awesome. Check out the stuff Aleonymous posted to feast your eyes.
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GatLingGanDhi Mar 12, 2014 @ 3:27pm 
Yay,

totally forgot to check this old post o' mine, sorry. Thanks a lot for your replies, folks. Man, I worked with flash a lot, and have to say that it is really hard to get some good stuff out of it without a huge amount of work. I can tell that Powerhouse rocks pretty hard from what I've seen on their site. But I think whatever software they used to animate the characters, they didnt take "advantage" of the symbols you would use in flash. I suppose they drew every single frame of the animations just like classical animators do, and thats pretty cool. I gotta get practice in that kind of animation too! I only did 3D animation so far, which is a lot easier. Oh, and as a kid I did a lot of flip-books with stick figures if that counts :D.

And Twelvefield, do you have some of your work online? Just out of interest :)
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