Idle Animations - Examples

Examples

• Battlefield 2: if the vehicle mine is selected but no action is taken, the player flips the circular mine several times; each weapon has an animation.
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert: infantry do pushups when left idle for a short period.
• Commander Keen 4: Keen becomes impatient, tapping his foot then sitting down to read a book. There is also an easter egg: the first time Keen becomes idle when standing on one of the moon symbols in the Pyramid of the Moons, instead of the above sequence he "moons" the player.
• Duke Nukem 3D: Duke will crack his knuckles and comment to the player impatiently, "What are you waiting for?"
• Future Knight (ZX Spectrum version): the hero starts to get annoyed and, after a while, will start losing energy until game over occurs.
• Grand Theft Auto IV: Niko Bellic will yawn, inspect his gun, stretch, scratch his head etc. If outside in the rain he will catch the rain and shake off his soaked clothes.
• Half-Life if one is holding a Snark, it will attempt to bite the hand holding it. Gordon will then admonish it with his left index finger, almost getting bitten in the process.
• Halo series, Master Chief will inspect his gun, along with other things after standing a while.
• Just Cause: Rico will flip his dual wield pistols.
• Kirby: Squeak Squad: Kirby will fall asleep and dream of Strawberry Cake until he wakes up, when he swallows the dream cloud.
• Pokémon Black and White introduces idle animations for all Pokémon during battle. If the device is left alone for a while during a battle, the camera will zoom in on a Pokémon as it does its animation.
• Rayman 2: Rayman will take his body, and bounce it like a basketball. He will spin it on his finger, then put it back.
• Red Dead Redemption: John Marston will take off his hat and wipe the sweat from his forehead.
• Resident Evil: Chris crosses his arms and waits. Jill puts her left hand on her hip and pats her gun against her leg with her right hand.
• Ristar: the character will perform a unique idle animation depending on what stage he is on. For example, on the snow-themed stage, he will make a little snowman and on the music-themed stage he will start to dance happily.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic will impatiently tap his foot.
• StarCraft: the images for the units will look around after a given time.
• Uncharted: Nathan Drake will do numerous animations, such as crouch and look around.