The Free Archives (Formerly Animations Archive)

hadecynn · 2016-01-19T09:49:48+0900

6/15/2020 Today we're happy to announce the revival and rebranding of the former Animations Archive. As many of you are aware, the free resources we've posted here have become hard to get a hold of over these years. To solve this issue, we've decided to put everything on itch.io where they'll be more permanently available and easier to manage. The Free Archives will be released periodically and will contain remastered versions of free assets released since 2016, experimental prototypes, and other assets crafted by Dreams Circle that do not fall into our flagship brands. These assets are designed for game production but can be used for anything as long as the Terms of Use are followed. Note that whereas the old Animations Archive releases were set to 20FPS, these remastered assets have all been made at 30 AND 60 FPS, so they're perfectly compatible with all of our paid assets (Animations Collection and Animations Select). Without further ado: The Free Archives Vol.1 by Dreams Circle dreams-circle.itch.io Enjoy!

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hadecynn

#361 Nov 25, 2016, 04:23 PM Source

@kovak What do you mean by compress?
kovak

#362 Nov 25, 2016, 04:27 PM Source

To reduce their file size without loosing quality.

I can do it myself thanks to tinypng but i know some users don't and they get frame drops during combat and don't realize that the issue is probably with the images being displayed. Ofc others won't have trouble with it so it may vary from dev to dev and pc specs.

EDIT - I'm not saying that it's a good idea to have 2 separated folders, one with compressed images and other with uncompressed because it generates extra work for you, i'm just curious.
hadecynn

#363 Nov 25, 2016, 04:33 PM Source

@kovak No, neither the Archive nor Collection animation sheets are compressed in any way. The reasoning being that, while there are tools out there (such as the TinyPNG you mentioned) that can trim down the size, there aren't any tools that can easily restore whatever was lost in the compression. Granted, the loss might be almost indistinguishable from the naked or untrained eye, but from my standpoint, this is something that I want to let the users decide whether they want to do or not.
Craig

#364 Nov 25, 2016, 11:26 PM Source

Take my money!!!
ThePotatoOfFire

#365 Nov 26, 2016, 04:38 AM Source

I can feel the hole in my wallet already...

These animations are too good.
Vin Coffee Artist

#366 Dec 7, 2016, 03:05 AM Source

Awesome Animations! Very clearly made to express! :rwink:
Arithmetician

#367 Dec 7, 2016, 06:48 PM Source

@hadecynn Very nice! I can see several of these being helpful to my project. I'll have to look forward to when they're released on RPGMakerWeb.
BCj

#368 Dec 11, 2016, 03:23 PM Source

Can't wait for the new ones :D
hadecynn

#369 Dec 18, 2016, 06:31 AM Source

The wait is over! It's here!
kovak

#370 Dec 18, 2016, 08:54 AM Source

now i have to wait for it to be released on steam :v
Kazami

#371 Dec 18, 2016, 10:41 AM Source

Very nice made animation Pack especially Accelrate and Decelerate are Masterpieces!
Johnboy

#372 Dec 18, 2016, 01:44 PM Source

Hurray!
Blithe

#373 Dec 18, 2016, 02:13 PM Source

I was hoping to get my hands on these before the end of the year and now you've just made my day. Awesome animations as usual. Now I can go replace some of those place holder animations I've been using up until now. Great job! :thumbsup-left:
WookieeChan

#374 Dec 19, 2016, 08:27 AM Source

This new pack is amazing, I picked it up without even thinking about it and don't regret it for a second. Thank you!!
ALTERED STATE ?

#375 Dec 21, 2016, 05:22 AM Source

Wowe! Your animations so clean and beautiful!

~~They remind me of Kingdom Hearts more than FF a bit.~~
ThePotatoOfFire

#376 Dec 22, 2016, 04:51 PM Source

Congratulations on the release of Quantum! I'll have to pick it up soon.

I have a question about the animations, both Animations Collection and the ones posted on this thread.

Is it okay to take a frame of them and make an icon out of it? Just resizing one frame down to 32x32, then putting it on the icon sheet. No other edits are being made.
hadecynn

#377 Dec 22, 2016, 05:33 PM Source

@ThePotatoOfFire Yes, with a few conditions:

1. The edited resources cannot be redistributed by themselves (as in, you'll obviously have to include them when you release the game, but that's the only way they are allowed to be distributed), and they can only be used for RPG Maker projects.

2. For commercial projects, you need to BOTH credit me for the original source, as well as make it clear that it was edited and altered by you (or whoever is doing the editing).

3. For non-commercial projects, crediting is optional, but if you do decide to credit, you must also make it clear that it was edited as per above.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.
ThePotatoOfFire

#378 Dec 22, 2016, 06:09 PM Source

Alright, thank you for the quick response!
Fernyfer775

#379 Dec 22, 2016, 11:22 PM Source

Dear sweet baby Jesus these animations are gorgeous! Very nice job!
SrgDark

#380 Dec 25, 2016, 08:56 PM Source

Congratulations on the new release. As before, the animations are excellent and very useful.