Character and Ability Animation Ideas and Suggestions?

What are your suggestions about animations for abilities and characters? Body animations while moving, attacking, doing the abilities etc

(This will be pretty much a megathread for animation suggestions)

[Placeholder for suggestions, will update as i finish each point up]

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Conrad

I'm confused wtf is going on haha

Conrad

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fantasyashegmr

Would love to see mage animation do away with spinning while casting. Seems like part dancer part wizard currently. Simply lifting off ground Luke cleric is awesome. Having some elements around based on the cast would be great imo. Spinning doesn't inspire awe it makes one laugh

maouw

I'd really like animations to take inspiration from dancers, acrobats and parkour (PARKOUR!)

Paying particular attention to the way these people offset their centre of gravity when in motion.
This will help with giving animations weight/momentum - especially for melee classes who need to be agile.
(although, I'm pretty sure combat styles like Kendo are big on maintaining centre of gravity...)

I know it's a lot to ask, but I'd also like the weapon animations to take into account the weight of the weapon.

I wonder if this is getting into the polish side of things though?

Also from a technical perspective, if the animations could be paramaterized to make adjustments easier (assuming they aren't already paramaterized) and potentially reuseable.

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