Made one for a game idea actually:
Idle animations are movements/actions that video game characters have when they aren't being used. If your OCs were in a video game, what would their animations be?
Taps her foot, folds her arms, oooor... plays with fire. Since she's a pyrokinetic in her universe (+ a few more things) she'll probably make a fireball and occasionally throw it up and down like you would a tennis ball.
Oof back because I like this thread idea. I feel like Doujin would just stand around, maybe start bopping/jumping around in place with a smile on his face like he's quietly dancing to something. I'd like to think it'd go with the current theme playing on the level too lol! If you wait long enough, he may start levitating and will either curl up on a pillow and start to nap or meditate as little clouds start to float around him.
Probably doing a little bounce/jump in place in a ''ready to work'' position or energy if he's on his work clothes.
This could appear from time to time if immobile for too long:
On another note, if he's on his casual look/clothes it would probably be an animal crossing villager arm swinging animation. With happy gestures occasionally
Bonus: If it's PostMortem-Gray then there's an addition of him grabbing the strand of his bag or occasionally fixing it. Also angry/sad gestures.
Briar would either whip out an old brown tattered book and read it or he'd levitate for a few moments before returning to his static position. Perhaps even both at the same time, or alternating between them. The former would most likely be in his casual 'normal' clothes whereas the latter would be in his super-costume.
possible ones:
- yawn
- lying down and then falling asleep
- summoning a dark spirit from a shadow or creating an icefire (ghostly cold flame)
- sigh or facepalm
i love game character behavior
diver has 3/4 idle animations, 1 is they do kind of a scared swing where they look behind them, the second is they shift their weight from one leg to the other, and the third is to cough (varies from "coughs literally twice" to "are you ok", and both cause their seraphs to frenzy because it makes diver angry. when the second kind of cough ends, the seraphs float belly up, and when you start to walk again diver will stumble)
if you leave them for too long they'll crouch but they won't sit down
and because they can't talk/don't even want to, they also react to stuff with gestures... they shrug, point with their hand in their pocket, and the seraphs frenzy when they're angry
and when they're on their knees, they'll punch the ground
they are very very very angry
i love idle animations, they show a lot about a character!! i'd imagine he kinda just stands normally in place with an occasional bounce, but as for animations he'd:
- look at his tail, then quiver it
- rock back and forth on his heels
- look at his surroundings curiously
- yawn a little, then rub behind his neck
- take out his rapier, jab it a little, then promptly fumble with it before putting it back
- [rare?] looks around himself, does a little dance in place, looks at the camera, then promptly stops, blushing
This is a dope thread idea. I’ve always loved those little idle animations in games.
Dauson would probably have the classic looking around nonchalantly or just laying down and taking a nap. His design was actually inspired quite a bit by Ratchet from R&C and I believe Ratchet had a similar idle animation.
-flapping her wings
-glancing about nervously
-if you leave her for a super long time she sits down and starts playing on her dsi