Hippie

[georgestow]

It should be noted that this version is a late sixties hippie, wearing flared corduroys and a red T-shirt.

Red? Tie-dye the thing!

 

[Plotinus]

This is a lot better than the earlier ones - good stuff!

An important tip: when a character moves his arm, the rest of his body should move too. If you were really to hit somebody with a guitar, you wouldn't hold your torso stock still and move only from the shoulder down. You would twist your body around and bend your legs, perhaps even take a step forwards. With attack animations it's really helpful to think of the entire body as a single limb, all moving with the same purpose. Try acting out some of the animations yourself and you'll see. Also, the small scale of these units means that it's a good idea to exaggerate such motions beyond what is strictly realistic - not as much as a cartoon, but still a bit, to make it clearer what is going on.

 

[Takhisis]

That's what a sober person would do, Plot, remember that hippies were usually in a haze.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Companion pieces to this might include the Hippie Chick, the Hippie Van (VW Bus), and perhaps the Eco-protester (described in >this< thread). In the mid-eighties, the Hippie Van becomes the Libyan Terrorist Van (Anti-tank weapon shooter in skyroof, machine guns in windows) from Back to the Future.

You forgot the heavily bearded old guy wearing overalls & not much else but some kind of shamanic mojo around his neck. The one who has a pile / shed full of junk that looks useless until you really need it. The one who can fix anything. From a moribund Calypso bulbosa to a tweaked De Laval nozzle. The one who's grounded in a really weird way. Like he plays Zappa, but only the PoMo orchestral stuff. On a saxophone. That he built in his metal shop. Like maybe he's a gun-toting vegan. Or a Jain who tells dirty jokes. Or an old H.A. who feeds the jack rabbits all winter long. Whose trailer is insulated with what he cherry-picks from The Strand & he's read them all (most of his marginalia is in the first edition Hammetts). The one who can keep "Further" running long enough to get home from Woodstock.

 

[Moosezilla]

Oh, you mean that guy that "keeps on truckin'! The one who drives a Suzuki Sidekick before they're invented. R.Crumb's greatest character Mr. Natural!

 

[Takhisis]

You mean, a Hippie leader unit. Has high defense and charm bombard.

 

[Balthasar]

Oh, you mean that guy that "keeps on truckin'! .... R.Crumb's greatest character Mr. Natural!

I wish I'd thought of that - back in the day, a hit of Mr. Natural could leave you stunned and disoriented for hours.......

 

[dragonprobably]

Hey, I made a request a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) about Hippie Protesters, (Pretty Much what you did without the guitar and a sign instead) could you do that for me please?