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⭐︎ Dan Root ⭐︎

@danroot.work.bsky.social

✏️ Animator 👨‍🏫 Lecturer 🕺 Dad ▶️ YouTuber 🎮 GameDev https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGameAnimationStudy https://danroot.work/

867 Followers  |  21 Following  |  195 Posts  |  Joined: 19.08.2023  |  2.0092

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Trying my hand at drawing again

08.08.2025 12:21 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love me some Kandinsky

08.08.2025 12:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love this detail in the new #Shinobi game by @lizardcube.bsky.social that if you're close enough to an obstacle while rolling, you'll transition to a unique 'roll over obstacle' animation.

04.08.2025 11:27 — 👍 59    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks!

02.08.2025 07:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It should probably be around that anyway for AAA games seeing how many people work on them and for how long. I think it's just because it feels like it's happening quite quickly.

24.07.2025 05:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean I thought games these days were like £59.99 anyway.

23.07.2025 21:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a bald man with a beard is looking at the camera . ALT: a bald man with a beard is looking at the camera .

Really?

23.07.2025 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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But people are fine with a flying man and pocket dimensions and magic people?

23.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Okay so this is technically a mixture of 50s - 80s animation but god damn this is all so magnificent.
(King and the Mockingbird)

22.07.2025 08:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Quick, rough movement study animation ~25 minutes

18.07.2025 14:51 — 👍 46    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I'm annoyed, how I structure newsletters uses emojis so now all my stuff looks like it's been written by ChatGPT now

14.07.2025 10:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Art of Walking in Capcom Fighting Games
YouTube video by Video Game Animation Study The Art of Walking in Capcom Fighting Games

Well I went and made another video on game animation. This time it's Capcom Fighting Collection 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5H...

12.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 90    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 0
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I'm at Develop: Brighton!
Anyone here this week?
I wanna meet and talk game animation!

08.07.2025 21:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ah how I enjoy the start of the video editing process.

I found this quite funny as I was just sorting everything out to begin the big edit.

Clicking to get the sound in sync, but funny that I just 'appear' as though summoning myself into existance.

04.07.2025 08:58 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love video game animation.

Here's an example of when you have to be clever and effective with your resources in reusing animations in different places.

This is RoboCop: Rogue City. Many NPCs have this same "clip board writing" animation in various ways.

27.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh man that looks great! Nice one!

26.06.2025 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Been messing around with animating a £3 version of the £80 Sticky Bones rig.

Works pretty well, I'd say!

25.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bomb Chicken has some of the best animated explosions

24.06.2025 20:19 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm going to start doing Patreon-exclusive videos as small ways to add value to your support ❤️

24.06.2025 11:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think this is everything as good as Odyssey was for the Sw1tch.

19.06.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think so!

17.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's me doing my charity skydive for my 40th birthday last week (I decided it would look cool to correct the border as the cameraman did a somersault)

17.06.2025 13:21 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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So tell me, who wants to see me fall out of a plane from 10,000 feet?

16.06.2025 19:57 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This looks very fun!

13.06.2025 05:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (aka The King and the Mockingbird) is a French animated film based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale. A huge influence on Miyazaki and Takahata at Studio Ghibli, it’s technically unfinished but widely considered a masterpiece. GIFs: Animation Obsessive

12.06.2025 07:52 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Constance - Official Gameplay and Release Date Trailer
YouTube video by GameTrailers Constance - Official Gameplay and Release Date Trailer

No way....not ANOTHER beautiful looking hand drawn metroidvania?! youtu.be/adSTtAo_hZg?...

08.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's some lightning reference for animation. Slowed down, of course.

07.06.2025 17:52 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, I guess we're not having a civil conversation then. Cheerio!

05.06.2025 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ahuh.

05.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How so?

05.06.2025 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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