Open Community Animation

[Sasso]

If you've been in the art section in the creative writing section on the forums you've probably looked at all of the costume and pose designs created by the community.And mos of them are really good. Like, if someone showed me one of them and told me it was the new update coming into the game I'd probably believe them. MnF has a pretty distinct style with it's art but it's not a hard to copy style. The animation in game is a classic 2d style, you've probably sen stuff like it all over the place. But if these community creations are so good, why can't they be used in game?

I have no doubt that MnF Club has a talented and dedicated art community (one I honestly should be more involved with) and if MnF let it's community they would happily offer the sprites assets they made to be put in the game. Art is easy to use because it's 2d sprites and can be overlayed characters in game, which is something the art community does a lot of. If the templates that MnF uses were made public anyone with a drawing pad could try make an outfit and submit it, and the developers could choose to put it in their game if they liked it.

Animation's are something different. I'm not an animator (or a game developer for that matter) and I see how this could not work outside the people that are hired to do it, but again, 2d sprite animation in a distinct style. Maybe community submitted animations aren't very usable but the community could make their own assets and submit their plan for a pose?

I'm not a game developer or an animator, although I do some digital art for fun, and of course these are all suggestions. I could be wrong in how this game is made and that community created content isn't usable (please tell me if I'm wrong). But I hope it is, because I've seen so much stuff that I'd love to see in game. Updates in game aren't common right now while there are so many good ideas here that people would love to see used.