Are you sure? The posing is pretty much identical, and the animation as well iirc.
Yes, I was there when Astra made the DoF animation and watched him painstakingly make all the frames; this was after Yeti had made that soldier animation and it was specifically because Yeti did not grant Astra permission to use his animation
Edit: just to confirm, @Pandan, it was definitely made by AstraLunaSol. I don’t think the animation holds a candle to Yeti’s animation and the improved soldier animation that’s publicly released is better too.
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I see, that makes sense then.
Thanks for the info. Curious because I’ve seen it around in hacks from that era, but never anywhere else. Personally, I like the aesthetic of it (The shield in particular), but I get what you’re saying.
Assuming he did the map sprites for soldiers in Do5 too? I liked those as well.
I did those actually 
I think he made some slight modifications
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Nice man, they’re sweet!
For feedback, I feel like you could add a tail and wolf ears to the Kitsunes (You know Kitsunes are, erm, fox people, not dog people, right?) and that would make them slightly more interesting. Shouldn’t be a ton of effort, either, methinks.
A very fair point, I may just do that.
Hi there, just seen the web… man do you need some help with the design?? I’m a web developer I can lend you a hand if you want… Also seen your FEXP manual… it is great, complex, but great xD Could you make a video tutorial based on it??? It will be the first on youtube xD
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I’m not the developer, @shin19 is, but as far as aesthetics go, I would be down for improving how the site looks. I know it looks bad, but I’m no expert on design.
Maybe Shin can offer his thoughts here regarding its design.
As far as FEXP, that’s a dead engine, IMO. Use romhacking, Lex Talionis, or wait until the end of this century for FEXNA.
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Tomorrow I’ll give Lex Talionis a try… I didn’t know that this existed, all the forums sent me to FEXNA and FEXP or to dead dreams resignation.
LT has some issues currently, regarding how it isn’t aiming to mimic fegba perfectly and it takes a few liberties, but it’s a fairly solid engine otherwise and quite decent for the average user.
There’s also SRPG Studio, if you’re more into the SNES FE games 
Sure, It’s on github and (I think) the footer should link to the repo.
My main priority has been keeping up with animations and adding features, I don’t think I’ve touched the aesthetics since creation.
Edit: Insights on design: I wanted to minimize the site’s footprint for faster loading/lower resources. That meant not utilizing large images for ui elements, backgrounds, header, etc. I’m also colorblind, so I chose colors that I generally have less issue with because hurrdurr blue=purple.
Anim backgrounds aren’t standardized, which imo is one of the biggest issues. However, they’d all need to be re-exported with a standardized color b/c the bg color is part of the exported image. Text is just text - I put no thought put into that. Weapon icons are (mostly) rips from FE10 and were designed (especially on mobile view) to be far enough apart and large enough for users with accessibility needs.
It was developed in and for chrome, mostly, so I’ve noticed strange css behavior in ie specifically.
How about converting to mp4 with ffmpeg?
gif An experiment in the mp4 format as a way to make gif animations smaller.
I tested using Nuramon’s Villager.
Sword.gif
143,683 byte
Sword.mp4
103,522 byte
ffmpeg -i Sword.gif -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:v libx264 -movflags +faststart Sword.mp4
There is 72% of the original size.
103,522 / 143,683 = 0.724…
By specifying the “-movflags + faststart” option, you should be able to play without reading all files.
gif
mp4
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Lex Talionis is really awesome… It has some error and (maybe) missing options but if you follow the tutorial you need no knowledge of programming (but you need to remember how to do things in the code xD)
NOW, I wanted to announce that I’m talking with all the Rom-hacker in serenes forest (the ones I found at least) that are making rom hack remakes of FE4, and if they answer before I die, I will start to make an all-in-one remake of FE4 and FE5 with lex talionis… But I’m needing people to help me remake the old sprites and mugs from the original game and adapt them to Gba format
As soon as I get the first 2 maps finished I’ll make a demo
I bookmarked your post. I’ll have to look into how automated I can make the process a bit more later! For the sake of laziness, I enjoy sticking with what FEBuilder exports.
The site and drive have been updated with all the fixes and new assets as of now. Enjoy ~
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I wish you’d lined up the swords and axes in parallel so we could see them side by side, but oh well…
Very nice.
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The thumbs down crit makes this easily the best hero animation around. 10/10
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