Animations and Expectations of Current/Future Jobs

[Prototype909]

9 Jobs.
5 Races.
2 Genders.

That's up to 10 Animation Sets, over 9 Jobs. That's a total of...90 unique animation sets.

I cannot even begin to stress how much work that would require.

(/laugh)

XI did it, even if it was only for weapon skills and auto attack/weapon stance. I guess after 12 years the the standards for work have gone down rather than up.

[Shioban]

XI did it, even if it was only for weapon skills and auto attack/weapon stance. I guess after 12 years the the standards for work have gone down rather than up.

Pretty much that.
FFXI had much more breathing room for development than FFXIV:ARR did.

With only around two years to completely rebuild the game from scratch, even with more convenient and efficient ways of creating most assets there was still a helluvalot to do.

Almost all of the animations used in the game now are motion captured (as far as I can tell), with very few being key-framed by hand.

They did an amazing job with NIN! I would find it rather disappointing when new jobs don't get that unique feel. I do hope they will give the current jobs a unique running animation.

The only reason the new job got a unique animation set was simply due to the increased movement speed, and the fact that it's a Ninja trope.

[File2ish]

XI did it, even if it was only for weapon skills and auto attack/weapon stance. I guess after 12 years the the standards for work have gone down rather than up.

The amount of content they had to push out the door for 2.0 (on a new game engine no less) was far more important than making sure each race and gender had their own unique animation sets. So yes, standards and development time may have gone down for animations, but it freed up the developers hands to work on what was more important to the release of the game after the 1.0 flopped. Because, you know, they worked on content for 1.XX while they built 2.0 from the ground up.