Windfall: the orchardist

The Defold Lab's third hero, all three phases of the 2D pre-rendered pipeline. The written art-direction contract this cycle worked to — the image generator was out of credits, so the palette is committed as exact hex and the proportions as a diagram (left); the Blender build — a rigid-bound charkit rig whose three walking rows come from one retargeted CMU walk (clip 07_01), with a face of separate named parts that blinks and changes expression, rendered to cropped sprite rows plus a camera-space normal pass (centre); and the orchardist live on his frost-dawn terrace in Defold (right). The row rotations were PROVED for this rig rather than inherited: a 12° face-check settles the side row, and one frame of every row is looked at before the set is committed. Download the mocap-animated rig below.