Woo! So hyped for this change. I'm glad their skeletal rig is now based off of actual bears instead of whatever animal they used previously (Dog begging for a head scratch? Cat about to pounce?) lol
Azeroth is not earth, so wow bears dont need to be like real bears, but the changes are positive :)
They also redid the walk backwards animation, and left/right turn, as well as redo the /kneel emote.
Old animation is better. New one looks like some Disney/Winnie the Pooh crap with big paws slapping the ground. The original needed some work, but it conveyed the sense of a beast lumbering forward. All this new one does is make us look like we're in a suit.
Anyone who says live version is more realistic has never seen even a picture of a real bear. Beta version is what a bear supposed to look and feel like. You don't even need a brain to see the difference.Live version is %90 ass with a broken back.
I like the new less bouncy standing/walking animation better, but prefer the old running animation... >_< the new one looks maybe too fast/light on their feet or something.
They'll redo bear animations, though most look nearly the same. But, paladins are still stuck holding holy balls or no animation for flash of light, holy shock, and basically all their other spells save for light of the martyr and the new holy light. Nice.
I looked at the bear animations, expecting to be disgruntled, because I like the big butts. But I cannot lie, the new animations look better.
Just a quick note...the live bear is NOT natural (at least compared to the IRL bears). It's moves, the way it stands etc...Don't say the current live bear form is more realistic because it is not. Yes I will miss it as a druid since mid vanilla...but just because of nostalgia I will now whine about X or Y.
Great job, the old animations always annoyed me, the wriggliness of the "still" animation and the slack jaw movement, reminded me of someone with ADHD that's been put on muscle relaxants.
So what if it's got anything to do with better rigging the troll bear/turtle, these animations still look better than the old ones. Watching the bear's head bob around like he's perpetually drunk was always weird to me.
The ears clip through the model too :(
"Byne from Reddit noticed the Bear Form had received an update, so we investigated further!" Hey, its me!
What are some of you complaining about, this is a million times better, finally the legs look equally large, finally a cool idle stance, finally no more running with mouth open
horrible like the new direct orcs, completely non-natural movements
don't like em. they look like stiff frogs. Whoever the artist was needs to go back and study bear anatomy before putting this together again.