You can view practically every monster in action in Diablo 2 at the Arreat Summit site. I'd like to see lots more original Diablo animated gifs. Can anyone provide them?
There aren't many to be found with an online search, so resigned myself to taking them from the CD-ROM, as I did with my avatar and signature.
It's not a straight-forward process (i.e., each character, and all of its actions, is shown from eight different angles -- you have to isolate the frames for the action and angle you want; the Diablo logo file is not animated on the CD -- it's a single static image (a .pcx file) of all 15 frames. I had to crop each frame from the image, then I reassembled them into an animated gif using PaintShopPro Animation Workshop), so it's time-consuming. At least, for me it is.
I haven't had the energy to sit through the process, again, since I made my av and sig.
I would like to see the other animated files too. The one I want to see the most, however, is Lilith (aka the black version of Andariel).
The process is even more convoluted when extracting the character animations from the D2 CD-ROM. That werebear gif I used to have in my sig was one of the easy ones, and it was still a pain to track-down and isolate the frames I wanted.
The animations for most of the other characters are broken down into body parts (arms, legs, torso, head, etc.), with scads of possible permutations dependent on the armor and weapons, multiple color-pallets (Lilith and Andariel are good examples of that)...
Reziarfg (Demon)
Spawned from the very bowels of the skulking Stygian Beast who awakens only once every 1000 years to feed off the spawn of its own bile and pus, the Reziarfg is truly the most hideous and vile monster in all of the Three’s bestiary. It was once said that the Three did not always rule the darkness that beasts beyond thought swelled and slithered across the void. It is believed that some of these nightmares may still exist hidden deep with in the pitch of the abyss where even the darkness of the upper realms of hell seems like day. This is where Reziarfg lives. HUH!?!
The process is even more convoluted when extracting the character animations from the D2 CD-ROM. That werebear gif I used to have in my sig was one of the easy ones, and it was still a pain to track-down and isolate the frames I wanted.
The animations for most of the other characters are broken down into body parts (arms, legs, torso, head, etc.), with scads of possible permutations dependent on the armor and weapons, multiple color-pallets (Lilith and Andariel are good examples of that)...
Aaww. She's like my forbidden fruit.
And just because I can, I'm going to point out that in some religions, Lilith is the snake in the Garden of Eden that temps Adam with the forbidden fruit.
Edit: Reziafg is an inside-joke from Blizzard. Its G Fraizer backwards.
And just because I can, I'm going to point out that in some religions, Lilith is the snake in the Garden of Eden that temps Adam with the forbidden fruit.
Edit: Reziafg is an inside-joke from Blizzard. Its G Fraizer backwards.
odd... I wonder if they will follow through and put this thing in diablo 3.
Ohh, cool. Could you possibly get the one of the enemy wizard/Lazarus teleporting? I love how they do that. So much better than the Sorcerer or Sorceress' version.
I just took this, real quick-like, from the CD-ROM.
I need to dig a little more for the other versions. One of the green ones from the HotB quest would look cool...
Edit: It helps if you load the correct palette in the first place... (still looking for a green one).
EDIT #3: Figured out how to change their color:
Atru -- As long as I'm in here, I'll see if I can scrounge up a teleporting mage.
Oh man! Bloody brilliant! See folks, this is why the first Diablo kicked so much ass. And has anyone noticed how the Death Knights and Protoss Zealots die the exact same? They even make the same noise.
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It's not a straight-forward process (i.e., each character, and all of its actions, is shown from eight different angles -- you have to isolate the frames for the action and angle you want; the Diablo logo file is not animated on the CD -- it's a single static image (a .pcx file) of all 15 frames. I had to crop each frame from the image, then I reassembled them into an animated gif using PaintShopPro Animation Workshop), so it's time-consuming. At least, for me it is.
I haven't had the energy to sit through the process, again, since I made my av and sig.
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
The process is even more convoluted when extracting the character animations from the D2 CD-ROM. That werebear gif I used to have in my sig was one of the easy ones, and it was still a pain to track-down and isolate the frames I wanted.
The animations for most of the other characters are broken down into body parts (arms, legs, torso, head, etc.), with scads of possible permutations dependent on the armor and weapons, multiple color-pallets (Lilith and Andariel are good examples of that)...
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
Spawned from the very bowels of the skulking Stygian Beast who awakens only once every 1000 years to feed off the spawn of its own bile and pus, the Reziarfg is truly the most hideous and vile monster in all of the Three’s bestiary. It was once said that the Three did not always rule the darkness that beasts beyond thought swelled and slithered across the void. It is believed that some of these nightmares may still exist hidden deep with in the pitch of the abyss where even the darkness of the upper realms of hell seems like day. This is where Reziarfg lives. HUH!?!
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
Aaww. She's like my forbidden fruit.
And just because I can, I'm going to point out that in some religions, Lilith is the snake in the Garden of Eden that temps Adam with the forbidden fruit.
Edit: Reziafg is an inside-joke from Blizzard. Its G Fraizer backwards.
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.
A few more...
and a few more...
Gotta love those wizards. A Hidden would be nice. The way they look when their heads get chopped off and they fall backwards.
Siaynoq's Playthroughs
I need to dig a little more for the other versions. One of the green ones from the HotB quest would look cool...
Edit: It helps if you load the correct palette in the first place... (still looking for a green one).
EDIT #3: Figured out how to change their color:
Atru -- As long as I'm in here, I'll see if I can scrounge up a teleporting mage.
Edit #2: Viola!
Death of a Blood Knight
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Snuffed-out Snow Witch
Hell Spawn
This is why I want a first person Diablo. Imagine seeing this up close!
Goatman Death