Very entertaining take on the animation of this one. And when did you start adding the old British ITV 'transitioning to a break' markers to your outro? Just noticed that this episode.

That was a weird mix of sarcasm and praise, it was often hard to tell if you actually thought something was good or if you thought it was bad. Not sure I like this format.

Learning recently that the budget for this game was pretty small, a lot of the shortcomings make sense. They prioritized parts that really need to sell the game and I think they prioritized well. Some parts could definitely be better, but with a staff of only 40 people, it’s not hard to imagine how some polish didn’t get done. That run animation is still hard to justify though =P

i love the subtle animations roll and auto have in cutscenes, they are adorable ^^

I was gonna use this video to animate Mega Man 11, but it turns out somebody already did it! Who the heck is this Capcom guy anyways?!

Well, that was a bit more salty than usual.

Dr.Lights chicken leg of *S C I E N C E*

Wow this made me really notice a ton of small details I would've never noticed before. Now this is the type of content I want to see more of.

Skip to 10:26 to bitch about Mega Man's animation

I actually really like what they did with the backgrounds in 11. It makes each level seem like its own unique place for the most part (some are definitely better than others). I just wish the themes presented by the backgrounds of the levels were more implemented in the level design.

interesting way to critique and draw attention to cool details in the animation, very entertaining

You got me to watch a 14 minute video on animation details, and if you knew me, you'd know that says a lot, so congrats! I've been seeing some comments resisting and others aceepting this format, which is awesome to see. Personally, I was just a bit confused at what you liked and what you didn't, but at the end I kinda understood what you were going for, so the confusion mostly faded away, in between though I was confused. You may have a nice video format here, I like it personally more than a structured, academic documentary, i think this attracts a larger range of people without losing quality of explanation if done correctly. In the end the video was entertaining, so nice job :D!

This game is so odd to me. Some parts are really polished and have lots of personality, but other parts are just lifeless and bland. It seems like this game was rushed, but the devs had just enough time to have some fun with it. But I'm still very disappointed in Mega Mans run cycle. It's so booooring (T_T)

Im a simple man, i see Megaman, i click

I honestly feel like the game was left unpolished because they ran out of time or money. This is most apparent when you read the description of both the wily stage bosses, they make the same joke about wily either not having enough money or resources to have the boss he wanted. If the development team was given more time it could have been more refined.

I don't really mind the dark muted backgrounds since for a game like this, knowing what you can and can't interact with in a 3D space is very important. But yeah Mega Man's run cycle in this game is... yikes. Maybe they did this to keep his hitbox more consistent but the hitboxes still don't read that clearly in my opinion.

Can't say it isn't honest. you can see exactly where the budget started growing short.

This is as close to ASMR as _Mega Man 11_ animation analysis videos may ever come.

I'm reminded of the Samus's pose from Metroid Fusion, as discussed in Jeremy Parish's old blog. In Metroid 3, she stood upright with her free hand gripping the top of her gun barrel to manage its powerful recoil. In Fusion, she held it from underneath in a hunched posture. She's injured, recovering from an infection that almost killed her. The effect made you feel weak, vulnerable, hunted. All from a simple change in pose.

How to animate Mega Man 11 "Yeah just make everything reaaaally cool."

Another great video dan. And pretty funny! Particularly when you're saying how bad some things like enemies are. Like the "just doing nothing" parts. Love it.

I like it... very neat way to show goodies and flaws

Wooh, your detailed observations are spot on, as always. Great episode!

Funnily enough, I was looking at the videos on this channel half an hour ago, wondering when the next upload would be...

god this perfectly describes how i feel about all the animations. brilliant study, love it!

honestly when i first heard it would be 3D animated i was expecting something closer to powered up but that was probably because that is the only other classic series game to do that

Good job m8. I will forever see your commentary when I play this game

This was actually really funny! I especially loved the fact that it was a conversation between a developer and a game animator that was priceless!!

In a perfect world, they would ask Nintendo to reuse the Smash 4 models and animations, and they would say yes

That knuckle crunch was damn near fucking perfect.

Curiously enough, anticipation and overlapping is basically necessary for platform games. The reason is that those principles actually give the player signs of action and response. Having an arc movement before throwing* a punch give the player some time to react, and that's a really good way to balance a game :) Edit: correcting my rusty english grammar :p

Awesome video!! Love it. Keep up the great work ❤❤

Pretty cool case study for the game. Nice to see a complete examination, including the good with the bad.

I think you may have just invented a new form of video game analysis. Very straight to the point! I hope you do one of these for smash bros ultimate when that comes out

Was this the...Video? :O Wait, actually I can use that how to animate an explosion video when the bosses explode.

This was a great video, both pointing out the bad and the good with a touch of humor.

I think this is what happens when you put passionate people, on a low budget project, and give them little time to finish it. IMHO, the team did they best they could with the resources and time they were given, but the execs didn't wanna take any major risks. So they gave it a small budget with a tight time window, that way, if it failed, they didn't lose much. But the team REALLY wanted it to do well and worked hard on what they could.

Thanks for doing one of my favorite games.

Love this!

This channel is really underrated I wish you had more subs!

Some things felt so charming and polished, but others felt like Rock's walk cycle. Lifeless. The backgrounds had so much care put into them, but then there's the voice acting. The particles were great, but then Torch Man. The stages were great visually, but then Bounce Man's stage. Just... hegh. If only this game had more time within development, the style was fantastic and the art thoroughly appealing. And we needed a third phase for the Wily fight.

Hey Dan, great (and also funny) critique on Megaman 11's animation (or mostly). Haven't played yet, but I really want to play it

You make several good points in this video. I wish Capcom listened to their fans, who early on said that the running animation looks really bad here. There are a few other things they could have done better as well. It's strange that Mega Man 11 didn't come out better, considering Mega Man 7 was made in 6 months. And that game has tons of detail, and a lot of secrets and awesome animations.

Watching a LP of the game, what weirded me out the most was the whole "all projectiles go through walls" mechanic, which looks really confusing in 3D. Not helping was that the only games remotely of this type I've really played in the last five years were Shantae ½-Genie Hero and Iji, where walls block them. Well, that and Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, but the latter two games have 2D graphics so that part doesn't look too weird.

I didn’t even notice the microwave in Dr. Light’s lab

I absolutely LOVED this video. Ha! I plan to watch it *several* times. Very cool! ^_^

14:07 Oh my lord absolutely brilliant. Haha love it. Amazing video!

Your Metroid series is off the charts fantastic and educational. This one went way overboard with the sarcasm. And I have been a Londoner for 10 years so I know sarcasm lol

This is some legit talk about animation. You actually referenced the twelve principles of animation and how the movement of the bosses expresses their personalities. Dude, you're good.

Catchy And I like the dancing

Very fair assessment. The entire game is both very appealing, and VERY safe. It did very little in the way of innovation and next to nothing in any advancement in story or characters. We do get a cool backstory between Light and Wily but eh. It was nothing but another "saturday morning cartoon" installment. Though all the same a solid foundation for more in the franchise. Here's to it!

very accurate description

That chicken looks delicious

I was just about to go to sleep but this was a nice distraction, great video!

I KNOW!! HIS WALK ANIMATION HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME FOR SO LONG!!

Mega Man 11: The Safest Bet

NETWORK TRANSMISSION MUSIC IN THE FIRST FIVE SECONDS I know nothing about this Dan Root guy and I am _immediately_ interested.

lol you completely roasted these animations. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing but you definitely pointed out allot of details I never noticed.

Great video! Loved the game! Nicest satisfying ps4 platinum in a while

Sarcastic-tastic! Lovely stuff, Dan. 9.05 - what IS that funny noise you make?

Dan Root? TO THE ROOTS OF ANIMATION? GET IT!?

I feel the character animator is WAY better than the environment animator in this game. I do, however, LOVE how it looks. I can support this art direction going forward. It's going to be interesting to see what CAPCOM comes out with MMX9.

Oh right when you use chain blast in the air you can see mega mans boots are hovering well at least a little bit.

Man I really savoured that flavour of this video...

Please do more of these

I didn't realize there were two versions of Dan speaking to each other until halfway into the video, the intro piece just felt too funny thinking it was a single Dan not being able to make up his mind with what he wanted 😂

I hope someone at Capcom sees this video honestly. Also hope they sell the Mega Man IP to Nintendo

I thought this is an actual analysis on Megaman 11 animation but it's just sarcastic nitpick 10/10 I'm subscribing

I immediately clicked when I saw this. I was interested on how you will discuss the animation in mega man 11 especially mega man's walk animation. I also don't like the backgrounds. Thank you for this!

That was a nice take on the game's animations. Personally, I am all fine with the looks of the game but wish they were taking Rock's walking animation from the 8th main game as inspiration, which they did not but that's fine. Also haven't notice the little microwave in the lab or that single frame where he shoots before his buster is ready, nice pickups either way. I am just glad we are away from the 8bit graphics they used for years. All these indie titles made me kinda sick of it.

Can't wait for the fans to Demake this into 8 bit.

Mega man 11 in my opinion, is my favourite mega man game of all time. I love the techno music, the 2.5d art style, even the infamous running animation looks great to me! It's actually quite depressing that so many people hate what I personally love in video games generally...ah well, if fire emblem path of radiance was any indication to me, good games aren't guaranteed at all to make $$$ despite how much effort was put into them.

*Thank you for this video, I may now animate Megaman 11 with this knowledge* (Nah seriously though great vid)

Love it

must admit this game looks great but the points you go over are brilliant. could you do a mother metroid animation I know I'm not one to tell you what to do but I would love it if you did a metroid zero mission video. great work on the video like that you used two people to discus the animation

Ooo, can I get a playlist of the music used in this episode? All of the choices are on point and great to listen to!

Man I hadn't realized how awesome the robot master animations are! Too bad about Mega. I'll never fully get over it. You showed some good examples of what his run cycle could have been. Also, I know the video isn't on this subject but thank you for bringing up how other games have had a plethora of Wily bosses and this game had TWO.

Really enjoyed this format. had some really solid moments of dry wit. "Aaaand how many principles of animation do you want to use?" "errrrm, some..."

I wonder if some of these animations were purposefully simple to serve the gameplay better. Since the game is contingent on quick reactions and very precise placements. This applies more to Mega Man though, and even then some of those wouldn’t change the gameplay feel.

_nice_

it's hard to tell which of these are criticisms and which are compliments

The yellow helmet enemies are animated well

Please do "How to animate Sonic Mania"

Honestly I thought Mega Man had a decent run cycle. It wasn't as energetic and full of life as the NES animation or even the Smash rendition, but it did it's job. It looks a bit bland, sure but it also has this nice dynamic feel to it that really just looks kinda cool even if it seems stiff when you pause it on certain frames as you mentioned. This run cycle and it's seemingly bland or focused/stiff nature actually reflects Mega Man and his focus and determination to stop Dr. Wily's plans fot the Eleventh Time. He looks like he's ready to take on anything and his stiff run cycle shows he is not going to let anything stop him. I don't know if anyone felt this way after just thinking about it in their head and analyzing each frame for quite a while. I just like to think of it that way-Just me being an idiot. Genius vid btw-Very entertaining and enlightening.

You hit on the game's lack of balance pretty well. It feels like they put more weight on some stages, bosses, animations, and even music than on others in terms of time or effort. To me this was no more apparent than in Fuse Man's stage. It's arguably the best and most exciting stage in the game, by my estimation, and its music just so happened to be the theme for the very first trailer, setting expectations very high for the game. I remember the trailers for Mega Man Zero 4, Mega Man 9, and Mega Man X8 having had similar outcomes, but where the first two were more well-rounded games I enjoyed, I felt really disappointed by X8--partly because the trailers got me more excited than I'd ever been for a Mega Man game at the time. I wasn't as disappointed in Mega Man 11 as I was in X8, but it didn't quite feel like the big triumphant return I'm sure most every fan was hoping for. Still a pretty good, very challenging entry however.

You should do more videos in this style.

its such a good game and it can be rather hard... but that might just be because I don’t play a lot of classic megaman, mostly x and zero titles

I 100% agree with you about this video

It’s a bizarre game: there’s a lot of things which feel very polished and other things which were neglected. I get that feeling with the gameplay too with Bounceman’s stage. Either way, great video and absolutely love Megaman 11.

Good video

Wow... I can't tell at all what is a compliment and what is not in this video, which made me drop it before reaching the middle of it. It sucks cause you can tell that the writer actually knows what he is talking about...

Can you give me some advice about the realization of your logo intro? It's pretty amazing, especially the fade of the text and the zooming for the video gameplay. I was looking for some tutorial but I didn't find anything about it. Sorry for any grammar mistake but english is not my first language.

9:38 IMAH FIRIN MAH LAZER !!!!

*MIGHTY FIGHTING ROBOT, MEGA MAN!!*

I got that some -most?- of this was meant to be sarcastic, but I've never played MM games and I'm certainly no game designer, so a lot of the finer points (I think) went past me. For me, in the middle section, I couldn't really tell what was criticism and what was good game design.

OMG I loved this video!!! As someone who puts mega man 11 on the top of my top ten best Mega man classic games, this was amazing!! The Sarcastic tone was top notch (couldn’t stop laughing) and it made me see some spots in the game that I was completely blind to. Like fire man's flames lol I can't not notice it now!!! And how the digger actually looks out the window to see, that’s great attention to detail I never noticed. Considered me a follower good sir!

wow!

Yep, still waiting for that new game.

i know mega man 11 is not perfect but the music in this game is awesome i love the soundtrack so much

Have you considered analyzing the animation of Mighty No. 9? I was so excited for the release and then severely let down. The disappointing run cycle and explosions in that game actually inspired me to start my current game project with hopes of improving upon the flaws of MM No.9. I'm currently on a quest to create "the game I always wanted to play as a kid" and your videos have been a huge help!