During this week, I started working on the jump animation for the protagonist. As usual, I started by sketching out rough gestures for the jump animation and showing the team before pixelling them in.

The next animation I had to create was a hit animation, used when the player gets damaged. This is  a very small animation that only appears for a split second on-screen so as not to destroy the rhythm of the player's running. However, since I only had three frames to work in, this meant that I could not do much with the scarf's movement during the 'stumble' as it would have to go straight back into running immediately. I started off by sketching the gesture of the character stumbling backwards then moving forward to go into running again before pixelling them, keeping the scarf behind them so that there wasn't too much of a gap between this animation and the start of the run cycle.




After this, I added the sword and shield.


The next job I had to do was to create a death animation for the protagonist. Since this didn't have to stay in time as the player will not be running after it, I could extend it to be as many frames as I needed; I wanted to make a cute and comical death animation of the character falling, so I started off making a very rough sketch of the character falling to get the gestures right.











I showed this to the team for feedback before adding the scarf and props, and the team seemed happy with it; the only issue was the legs as the character is falling, as it seems that the legs change sides and aren't clear enough between the fifth and sixth frame. I also felt that the start of the animation was longer than the end, and there wouldn't be enough time to let the scarf also hit the ground. To fix this, I added a couple of extra frames on the end of the character's leg lowering to the ground, so that they ended up lying flat on the ground.













During this week and the previous week, I also got in contact with Nathan Fitzpatrick, a composer from South East London who I met a few years prior through a mutual friend. Nathan agreed to compose a couple of tracks for our game, and so I talked to the team and relayed some information on the game, what music we liked and what we would like to be included in the game's soundtrack to him.

We also spoke to Sebastian Owen from the Ideas Factory about the idea of making a company, and got some valuable support from him; he suggested that we make an appointment to see Beth and Sarah from the Ideas Factory to discuss further and see if there was anything that the Ideas Factory could help us with, so we started brainstorming things we would like to ask them.