I made a plugin for Maya that snaps all selected verts to the grid (a feature surprisingly missing from Maya)! When I make my lowpoly pixel art models, having the mesh perfectly aligned to the grid is how I achieve my pixel-perfect UVs, so this tool should come in handy!

You can download it for free on my Store page here on ArtStation if you like: https://www.artstation.com/a/27825164

Pixel tank opens fire on you, WHAT DO YOU DO??
A. return fire - no mercy 💥
B. hug him cos he's still a cute lil guy 🥰

Many people on Twitter commented on how 'cute' our tank friend was, so I wanted to ensure its animations matched! Plenty of rumbles, leans, and hops to give it personality! 😄

A revamp from a project I started a little while ago, now back in full production! 👀

Here's Lucy's rig in Maya! 🖤

These guys are both moving at the same velocity BUT with differing anim speeds. Finding a balance of these two values is a tiny thing that can make a big impact on how polished your player feels to control. Don't be afraid to adjust your animator speed!! ⏩

More discussion on this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/artofsully/status/1632906956967903234?s=20

(nice alliteration in that title hehe :D)

Aesthetically pleasing poly-perfect-pixel UVs for your viewing pleasure 🍷

Deciding where geometry should be grid-locked and have curves implied in the *texture* VS making *curved* geometry with *straight* pixels running along it is an tricky thing to figure out sometimes! 📐

This was my first time animating in well over a year, so I was VERY rusty 😅 That said, my new character rig helped a lot! A big thing that worked with this new style too was opting for separated limbs instead of deformed topology (because I refuse to have pixel stretch lol) 🦊

Pretty proud of my projectile ricochet system! 💥No physics involved (unless you count a single-shot raycast to calc. Vector3.Reflect), so no FPS-reliant collider penetration. Any number, any speed, perfectly calculated wall bounces every time!