Animation DemoCast: Exiled Republic Studios

This is a collection of gameplay animations I worked on with Adonai Games for the game Tales of Forgotten Heroes: Alchemist by Exiled Republic Studios back in 2021. These animations were originally intended to be paired with magical vfx as the player casts different spells. Since the actual character models hadn’t been finished yet, the studio had to get creative. All of these animations were done in 3ds Max on the Unreal Mannequin, rigged on a mix of Biped and CAT rigs. They’re designed to be able to transfer to character models built to the mannequin proportions. Although ultimately, the artistic direction changed and these animations weren’t used in the final game, it was a really cool challenge to work with the different rigs and animate for magical based combat.