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rharm2 wrote:Nice job sam! I already made a rublev serve but never released public so if anyone wants it you can use.

Man I wish you said it literally few hours earlier, I already was already around 70% done with mine but yours looks really good and similar to mine as well so no point in me continuing, i lost few hours of my life Thanks rharm very accurate serve

nico75 wrote:
Great news !
Service is difficult to make. However, you do a real great job, and Ruud and Felix AA are two good ideas.
Can you share with us some ideas about your next projects/players ?

I have too many ideas in my head right now so nothing is set especially since each single anim takes hours to get it to look nice and similar to real life. My next FHs will probably be Ruud/FAA, and for the serve I'm thinking Humbert/Bublik/Ruud maybe Hurkacz, but let's see.

gregwhistler wrote:Hi Sam!
First of all: thank you!!! For everything you've done for this community and for your recent animations. I've already tried some of them and your attention to detail reminds me of Wesley and this is the highest praise I can give when it comes to anims
And as for the upcoming animations: Musetti would probably deserve an animation pack since he's been playing great recently and he's also a pretty spectacular player. Besides that I think you could do justice to Khachanov's forehand, it's a unique and entertaining shot. Aaand maybe Berrettini forehand and/or serve?

That's the best compliment I could get, thanks for the kind words Greg Wesley's anims are perfect, and I try to put in as much work/details into each anims to make them very similar to real life.

Musetti yes I have him in my plans but I can't find good enough videos of his groundstrokes or serve, I need at least 2 angles and preferably close, if you can find those and send me I can consider it, he deserves his strokes and they look distinctive.

Berrettini was made by rharm and I'm happy with those ones right now, maybe I can try my own version in the future but he has decent anims already so not a priority.

Khachanov has already some great anims made by Davide Menez, do you have those? I probably won't do it much better than his.

Yep, I have their animations, I was just curious to see your versions of them but I totally agree with you, these two players are not a priority.
Regarding Musetti this is the best video I could find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt6C60kgohk

It only shows a couple of forehands but at least he's quite close to the camera.
Oh and you mentioned the possibility of making Bublik's serve anim, that's a great idea, the guy has a beast serve

Anyway, just do what you feel like doing next, it's great to have such a dedicated animator on board

Ruud FH + Acceleration - Finally happy with this one after 2 days of tweaking, try it out and let me know

Congratulations Sam !!!

I'm very happy that you made these animations, the game will be more realistic than ever with these missing animations that you have made, keep the great job and I canno't wait for the 2020 patch with all these new stuff !!!

Congratulations Sam! Your anims look very natural, great job.

SamModder wrote:Ruud FH + Acceleration - Finally happy with this one after 2 days of tweaking, try it out and let me know

Great job really lovely
Hopefully later on in TE4 we can have more than 2 animations for forehands and backhands

SamModder wrote:Ruud FH + Acceleration - Finally happy with this one after 2 days of tweaking, try it out and let me know

Vraiment bravo, animation de qualité

Juste une remarque (et non une critique!) : les jambes du joueur sont trop "écartées" à la fin de la frappe selon moi.

Mais, à nouveau, superbe boulot

Thanks guys A serve is on the way. It's been a tough ride, they are really difficult to make

nico75 wrote:
Vraiment bravo, animation de qualité

Juste une remarque (et non une critique!) : les jambes du joueur sont trop "écartées" à la fin de la frappe selon moi.

Mais, à nouveau, superbe boulot

Thanks nico, that's intended as Ruud as a very open stance finish on his forehand, I replicated the aggressive shots from here to show "explosiveness" for the acceleration, see the forehand at 0:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsmN9cbJ24&t=135s

Casper Ruud serve
Towards the end I wasn't sure how the result will be but it came out good I think, so I'm glad with the result My first serve officially

Congrats on your first serve Sam great job, both on the forehand and the serve, they both look realistic

SamModder wrote:Casper Ruud serve
Towards the end I wasn't sure how the result will be but it came out good I think, so I'm glad with the result My first serve officially

Very, very great Thank you !
About his FH, i saw this video : the legs looks closer to the body, in my opinion. Btw, you make an incredible works

SamModder wrote:Ruud FH + Acceleration - Finally happy with this one after 2 days of tweaking, try it out and let me know

Fantastic anims~!


Well done.. Keep it up

SamModder wrote:Casper Ruud serve
Towards the end I wasn't sure how the result will be but it came out good I think, so I'm glad with the result My first serve officially

It is Silky~!!!!

SamModder wrote:Carreno-Busta Serve

Super !
An amazing works