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Paul Jarvis

5 years

I don't have the time to devote to a fancy action shot right now, so I compromised and animated a quick pose loop using what I already made. Just couldn't stay away! #animation #Zelda #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Aaand done! Animating was a journey, but I think it turned out okay! It's nice to work on something self-indulgent now and then. #animation Model/Rig: @artstoff Ystra Character/Concept: @Alexis_Pflaum

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 months

It's been *years* since I've really animated anything for myself & I've really slid into generalist/solo-game-developer-land lately, but this was the last thing I did and I'm still p happy with it! Would love to do more little snippits like this in the future 🙂 #animation

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6 months

YOU. ANIMATOR. Show me one of your favourite animations you’ve done. I'm fond of this one! At the time it was a breakthrough for me in many ways: my stagnating skills, the way I approached animating, my mindset, and also it helped me network here on Twitter 😁

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

10 months

QRT with your animated art

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Dragon LLs are on PBE! This is my last set before I head back to R&D, but I love them to death <3 Here's their Emote3 - Animated and composed by yours truly and guitar/mixing by @oscar_coen ! This was everything I wanted to make since I first joined the team 🎶 #animation #TFT

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

Throwback to the last personal animation I did (ages ago..)! This is pre-comp & animation only, but I'm starting to get the itch to make something new again... Sorry for the total absence of anim/gamedev posts lately! I've been putting all my energy into Riot work. #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

I've been helping with Little Legends for the past few months and Dark Star is the first set I got to be a part of! I took lead on Squink and he was a blast to animate! I love this little guy so much. A more proper animation spread coming soon-ish, just gotta put it together🙂

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

And here's Pepper! Spunky machinist and franken-cutie. #blubberbusters #gamedev #indiedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Here's a little peek at Swain's coat rig -- It was definitely a challenge and stretched my knowledge of our jiggle dynamics to the max! Also a clipping nightmare...

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

After 6+ years, today marks my last day on League of Legends - I'm moving onto an unannounced Riot project! It's bittersweet, but I'm looking forward to the new challenges! I've got a few weeks to kick around starting now and totally plan on putting together a reel or two. Soon!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

Squink! Here's (most of) Squink's animations in a nice little package - I hope you all enjoy playing with him as much as I enjoyed working on him! #animation #TeamFightTactics

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Presenting Salt! Resident pathologist on the station and robotic cutie. #blubberbusters #gamedev #indiedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

I'm finally back at the office today! RIP my extended vacation, but I have access to my Ezreal project files again. Someone on the 10-year stream requested a version of that video with just the breakdown portion so here you go, random fan!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Tried to challenge myself with a 12-frame Sonic run cycle on a flight home over the holidays, but never really finished it! I have a lot more fun posing past this run blocked in too, but pretty sure I broke the rig in the file, so I may never get the chance to come back to it :(

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

I got some great feedback about how tricky it can be to know when to join in for carousel jam sessions. The intros are exactly 1 beat long, but it's still not as intuitive as I thought 😭 I removed the blend times and am also toying with adding a little visual -- hope it helps!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Choncc leads the way! 🍖🍎🥕 This was honestly one of the most fun things I've gotten to work on at Riot to date, and figuring out how to cram all my ideas into the tight deadline was such a challenge. The team worked SO HARD to bring them to life! #animation #gamedev #TFT

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Here's Nixie! A cute goofball trickster fairy that started as the simplest, but exploded into the most complex LL rig we've put out so far. #animation #TFT #TeamfightTactics Props to Matt Johnson for doing initial explorations and Sho Hernandez for contributing the Interact!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

What's up #PortfolioDay ! I'm Paul Jarvis -- currently working for Riot Games as a senior animator working on future projects! I've mainly worked on League of Legends & TFT over the years, but I also work on my own gamedev projects on the side! #animation #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Ao Shin is here! ⚡️⛈️ @DanZettl joined the fight for Ao Shin & knocked it out of the park! It was his first time with LLs and he adapted lightning-fast. Aside from some polish and the musical emote, this one was all his handiwork - So much personality! #animation #gamedev #TFT

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

We STILL playing this game? Nintendo??

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

What's up #PortfolioDay ! I'm a Character Animator turned Everything-Gamedev working on [ REDACTED ] at Riot Games! I love cute stuff, stretch frames, & responsive inputs 😤

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

1 year

Hey there #PortfolioDay -- I've been in R&D NDA land for what feels like an eternity and side project games have been on hold for my sanity too🙃 Getting itchy though & hopefully changing that soon, I miss my game children dearly

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Another animated gameplay mock-up sequence - Barf!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Finally, Bellswayer! My personal favorite of the bunch. Getting his followers out during locomotion was tricky but was totally worth the headache! #animation #TFT #TeamfightTactics Big ups to @RiotOhmu for exploration support & Dance and Sho Hernandez for the Interact and Taunt!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

Happy PBE birthday, LL dragons! 🎉 They'll always be some of my favorite characters I've gotten to work on. Choncc is forever my spirit animal. #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

The day we first got Ezreal's prelim face rig, I wanted to see how far I could push things and I'm incapable of taking anything seriously

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

Poppy is still one of my all-time favorite things I got to be a part of. We worked so hard to push her expressions! We had some REALLY tight tech constraints that don't really exist on League anymore. I always dreamed of going back and re-animating her with 2x the bone count.

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

🔥HOT ANIM TIP🔥 Boss anim test made entirely with sin-wave curves and offsets. It's a great way to build a foundation! From here it's easy to bake down and simplify before adding in texture. This took only 15min and has already gotten me 75% of the way! #gamedev #blubberbusters

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Okay yep, definitely going to animate this. It's too damn cute! Just replicating @Alexis_Pflaum 's concept pose to get comfy with the rig ( @artstoff ) limits -- I've got an idea of what I want to animate with it, but starting with an idle to kick it off.

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Found another little WIP Blubber Busters relic of Olde, I was so proud of the Wogma animations, such a shame we could never see it finished! #animation #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Have a tadpole! #blubberbusters #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

When we were trying to land on how we wanted to handle his jacket cloth, hair, fur, etc., we needed some basic animation to work from for sim tests

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

I finally got access to my League files again at work, so I made this little process breakdown of Ezreal's dance from last year! It's not really a technical breakdown, but it shows the different phases I usually go through for more complex assets like dances. #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Thanks for all the dragon love today! The first reel should be ready sometime in the afternoon tomorrow as long as nothing catches fire 🔥

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Gonna drop some of the dorkier things I have saved on my PC from Ezreal dev over the next few weeks in a thread here Ezreal didn't have a face for the first few iterations of the model/texture and, well..

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

Haven't done a breakdown like this in a while, but they're fun to make! Ezreal's dance from his 2018 rework #repostday #animation #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

It's taking all my self-control not to post real WIPs, but this little taste of an idle loop should keep me motivated to keep going. Having a blast! I'll probably have it finished up this weekend! I may do something with rendering, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it..

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Pepper's lab idle WIP - Not the cleanest loop yet, but moving on! #blubberbusters #gamedev #indiedev #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

Swain had a crazy dev journey and I never want to animate a long coat again, but I came out the other side with dynamics super powers, so it's not all bad (Ugh I don't have any actual Swain footage on this PC, but this was his coat dynamics setup. I'll try and find more later)

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

First up is Lightcharger! I dreaded starting this one, but totally fell in love by the end of production! #animation #TFT #TeamfightTactics Huge props to the animators who helped out along the way! @Regmisaur @JasonHendrich Matt Johnson Sho Hernandez

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Happy New Year!! 🎉 Get dunked, 2020

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

There's something about the bedroom in this apartment I'm touring this weekend that I'm drawn to... Can't quite put my finger on it.

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

Whaaaat #repostday is a thing we can do? Here's a little burpy guy from the archive #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Salt's back! So happy to be able to be back working on her again, here's her WIP idle rendered out so far #blubberbusters #gamedev #indiedev #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

'Ello hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm a character animator who has done exclusively NDA work for the last year+ working in R&D at Riot Games so I'm re-using my previous spread 🫠 I also do a lot of my own solo game-dev on the side, currently working on an RPG! #animation #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Okay work hours are over, time for the dumb stuff

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

Wow, today marks *10 YEARS* I've been at Riot. What a milestone! There have certainly been ups and downs at the studio over the years, but am the happiest I've ever been working in games right now working with really amazing people! Really exciting times.

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Finally back on enemies for BB again! Here's a baby polliwog parasite #blubberbusters #gamedev #smoliwog

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Here's where we left off at the end of the stream tonight! One tentacle and a bunch of piddly tongue/mouth polish to go #blubberbusters #indiedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

I wish Hollow Knight would stop releasing such great merch, I already have too many little plastic fellas. Couldn't resist 'em..

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Hitting the clinic NPCs hard for the next week! today has been hooking up all the foundations for CPU! #blubberbusters #indiedev #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

I had some time between Little Legends sets & with SB Pengu on the way we took the opportunity to give Base Pengu a little love too! The rig got some improvements and I did a full sweep on all of his anims to clean things up and polish! It hits PBE today! Weh. #TFT #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

8 years

Poppy's Recall from 2015 -- This was one of those anims that I would have killed to have another day or two to polish out. Fun though!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

It's done! Here's the first (and hopefully not last) breakdown of a spellcast animation for League. Zac's stretching strikes! I had a blast making this and am already looking forward to doing more. HQ is on YT here: #LeagueOfLegends #animation #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Here's what came out of today's stream! Crouching + back-to-idle for Eva. Just a little polish left! #blubberbusters #gamedev #indiedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

Been a few years since I posted this but I tried to counter the audio delay that happened the first time around. This was by far the most fun thing I animated on Taric! Zootopia had just come out when I started it so Shakira as the reference beat was a given #animation #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

8 years

Here's a few selects from DJ Sona - she was my last project I did for Skins team and the first that I got to animate solo. So cool. #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

I wasn't able to animate on Evelynn proper, but I did get to contribute with a quick little something for her promo piece!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

Got sent a mobile virtual tour and I'M SORRY, WHAT???

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

When your company with 1.5 million followers retweets you Hello!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Hmmmmm, who's this fellow? 🤔

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

Still not feeling lucid enough to code, so wound down tonight with a quick little pose test with @artstoff 's fantastic new Zelda rig to shake the rust off. It's so good! Hoping I can carve out some time to actually animate her soon!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Maaan, I've been wanting to put together reels from my time on Champion Update for ages, but just haven't ever gotten around to it. Here's a playblast of Ezreal's Ultimate cast at least! I'd really like to whip something up for Ezreal and Swain someday. Eventually. #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Just distracting myself from coding nbd

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

Okay, but what if Hoodie Poro? #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

2 years

Level up! My team is incredible <3

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

Been working on this the last few weeks! Prototyping the skeleton for barebones RPG combat. ALL temp visuals (obv) and absolutely doesn't represent any real planned mechanics, but my goal has been to learn and problem-solve to get to the next step #gamedev #madewithunity

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Reverse-direction variety! I don't think he's getting out anytime soon... Sorry, little buddy. #blubberbusters #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

Cool, love it.

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

8 years

Here's Warwick's basic attack cycle --Struggled a lot on these and learned a lot! basics in League are tough as they always play back (1/2)

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Rude... #blubberbusters #indiedev #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Digging around old Swain dev playblasts and found this blocking gem from when his kit was still being worked on -- At the time I think I was pitching a more physical manifestation of the demon that would surface during casts. I loved his shapes even without the cape! #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

Oh damn, here was an alt-sketch of the Pepper announcement anim! Yanki zuwari Pepper is still a powerful thought

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

3 years

Autodesk found a way to reach deep down into themselves and create something EVEN WORSE than Adobe. This would have been a parody video 10 years ago

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3 years

Autodesk has unveiled its new pay-as-you-go pricing system called Flex. Users will now be able to pay on a day-by-day basis by pre-purchasing online tokens: #autodesk #maya #3dsmax #gamedev #3dart

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Paul Jarvis

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3 years

This was worth every penny spent, I feel 12 years old again

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

8 years

@tobyfox Whoa Toby, you can't just post porn to Twitter like that

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Here's another rig test using the same process! Not an asset I'd be happy putting into the game yet, but it's good for a few things! Testing rigs, unblocking designers, framing scenes, etc.! Even if I inevitably scrap it entirely, starting here can be really helpful to the team

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Oh! Hello friend #blubberbusters #indiedev

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Paul Jarvis

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3 years

Indigestion #repostday #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

4 years

36 today - I've never been any good at celebrating myself, but this year really hits different. 2020 has been a tough, lonely year and I'm feeling more isolated than ever. Extremely grateful for everyone in my life, my health, and that I can keep doing what I love despite it all!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

@RiotNekomaru @faeriefountain The perfect anime crime...

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Splining out the Eva Jump+LandRun anim that was started on Sunday's stream, this has been a ton of fun so far! #gamedev #blubberbusters

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Paul Jarvis

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4 years

Here's a deep cut, Ryze was one of the first champion updates I worked on where I finally felt like I was getting OK at this whole animation thing.. Having him *punch* out his spells while only having ~0.25 seconds before the cast resulted in some pretty wild stuff! #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

@animturnbull @InkRose98 @LeagueOfLegends Press X to doubt

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

Sorry to spam with another iteration, but calling this done for now! Moving onto gameplay. Really starting to get a real feel for how this guy should move.

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

6 years

More level selection whale! Sick buddies. #blubberbusters #gamedev #indiedev #animation

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

5 years

Thanks Mike, yeah he is

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Paul Jarvis

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4 years

Speen

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Paul Jarvis

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3 years

Tell Twitter you have no idea how games are made without actually saying it

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Ah! So here’s something people aren’t explaining: NFTs don’t have to be jpgs. Imagine taking your favorite skin from Valorant, and using it Fortnite. And not paying extra, because you own it. Then using it in CoD, Minecraft, even Twitter, IG. So many possibilities, no?

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Paul Jarvis

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3 years

Why would I ever use a 3D package that doesn't let me play as Mario again? Autodesk lost the most important war

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3 years

Free download: Drop a Controller-Playable Mario into Any Blender Scene 👉

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Paul Jarvis

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4 years

TFT Set 4 is out today, and with it all the little dragons! Go get CHONCC, y'all! Working on LLs the last 10 months has been so much fun and I've learned so much, but as of this week I'm on to new things working in the R&D dept. helping kickstart anim systems for new projects!

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (come on!) #blubberbusters #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

7 years

Been back on enemies this week while the rest of the BB crew finishes some mechanics changes. Touching up some older parasite anims since it's been probably 2 years since they were last looked at! #blubberbusters #indiedev #gamedev

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Paul Jarvis

@paul_jarvis

8 years

Something new-ish! I had a free morning early on in Warwick's production and we were just starting to build his rig/explore his personality

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Paul Jarvis

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4 years

I needed a creative outlet during PTO so I grabbed some Rudy anims, opened a fresh Unity project, & started building. This is 95% coded from the ground up! Here's where I ended up at ~8 days! Really proud of the progress so far and have only just begun #gamedev #madewithunity