Eternal Circle features four main characters:
- First there is Aiden, which is the players protagonist and a half breed between a human and a forest ghost elder.
- Then there's Iné, which is the Blood Spirit and a very special character because she transforms form a ghost-like creature to a girl during the game.
- Very early on Aiden meets with Cort, a very strong warrior of the Asren tribe.
- And finally there's Gwynn, a human archer with magic talents who's changing sides.
Aiden:
This is a character prototype model for the main character Aiden. This model was made to see what can be done, how much time does it take to do such a character (for schedule planning), how such a character can be animated with the non-interpolated technique used on the DS and so on.
The model is a little bit over the top poly-wise and has too big textures, but of course it looks outstanding on a Nintendo DS. :) Both, polycount and texture size can be easily reduced to fit the screen resolution. But it is possible to have such a detailed character in the Battle Screen.
In the top right corner you can see the 2D-sprite of Aiden for the Strategy Screen, where classical bitmap characters are used to be able to display a large number of enemies and other things. The sprite is 32x32 pixel and uses about 32 colors. It has been scaled, so you can actually recognize it on a PC screen, otherwise it will be too tiny.
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 small idle animation using non-interpolated bones (sorry, a little bit choppy) |
| 973tris, one 256tex (256col) for character/sword, one 128tex (256col) for the wooden hand (object changes during game) |