What is UDON contributing to the game?
UDON artists are drawing the character select screens, stage backgrounds, endings and designing the new high resolution character sprites. Q) Which UDON artists are involved with the game? A) Pretty much everyone here on staff is contributing on one level or another. It’s one of the largest projects we’ve ever done and we’re honored to be a part of it. Q) Is UDON drawing every frame of animation for the sprites? A) No. Another company is taking our extensive sprite redesigns/key frames and animating them for the game. Our job is to design the sprites for high resolution and give the other game studio the tools they need to animate them smoothly. Q) Why are some of the frame samples posed a bit oddly? A) The outline/forms of the characters have to be identical to the original to keep the hitbox areas intact and the gameplay the same. Some of these poses, blown up 4.5 times and taken out of sequence, can look a bit odd. We’re doing our best to be faithful to the original poses while addi
