Animation Overhaul for Minecraft

Review Animation Overhaul

New Animation in Minecraft

What do you dislike about the standard Minecraft version? Someone will say that biomes look similar, and they will be partly right. The Mojang developers have been adding and expanding many biomes in recent years, but they still look similar to each other. Some people don’t like the crafting system, workbenches, and optimization. Yes, these are all problems, but often Minecraft players lack visual effects, animation, and pleasant vivid graphics. Indeed, you can install shaders and fine-tune them to improve the picture quality, but you’ll need mods to change the clumsy and a poor animations, and we’ll talk about one of them in this review.

As you can see, we’ve chosen one of the most popular mods, Animation Overhaul, which adds cool animations to Minecraft. The game is significantly transformed from a visual point of view, and you’ll see all the changes right away. Even the standard preset animation options are enough to appreciate the advantages and possibilities of the Animation Overhaul add-on; however, there is also custom editing of any animation, so you can create your own interesting options. It’s difficult to show the entire atmosphere of innovations in the screenshots, so we recommend immediately downloading this mod and installing it in your build to see how useful and convenient it is with your own eyes!

The Animation Overhaul mod reworks the standard types of animation in Minecraft and adds new ones. They have become smoother, more realistic, less «direct» as we used to see in the vanilla game version. In general, Steve’s behavior changes a lot, and you don’t need to configure anything or search the configuration file for a long time for this. By default, Animation Overhaul changes the standard animation types of the character to modified versions. All you need is to install the mod and get the desired result. And here, many things so actually change!

For example, the character breathes and even sways a little. You’ll see this when you first enter the game world. The standard activities change completely, such as jumping from different heights, eating, moving, and interacting with other blocks and objects. Moreover, the player bends down a little when running, so the character’s model stretches at about 30 degrees in front of him. In fact, this is realistic behavior, since most people slightly bend when walking quickly in real life. Now, Minecraft uses a similar model, and it’s really fun to watch.

Whenever you use melee weapons, the striking animation will seriously change compared to vanilla Minecraft: it can be cross-strikes, single strikes in one direction, and every time you see that they are all a little different. Now it’s even more pleasant to fight players or mobs in the cubic world. Such effects will even help you fight more effectively against players in PvP tournaments from a visual point of view, because the combat system has become more advanced and provides more visual information. To improve your fighter skills, you can practice on special stands in Minecraft.

But that’s not all! The Animation Overhaul mod adds several unique animation effects that didn’t exist in Minecraft before. If the player moves along thin blocks or structures, such as glass panels or a fence, the character will switch to «tightrope walker» mode, spreading his arms on both sides and moving his feet along a thin base. It looks really cool, and only a few AAA-level projects can add similar animations to the game, for example, the parkour-style ones. If you install the Animation Overhaul mod in your build be sure to try it on some block.

Another pleasant animation is balance. Let’s say, if the player is standing on the block edge, then the character will try to keep his balance so as not to fall. This process is accompanied by pleasant effects. In general, the developer of this add-on has done a great job to make the mod work correctly in most versions of Minecraft and added support for other game extensions, such as Better Combat, Spell Engine, and Emotecraft. With such an add-on set, you can turn a standard Minecraft into a higher-level project in terms of visual design and graphics. Add more shaders to the game, and you can shoot cool scenes, full-fledged Minecraft-style movies, or screensavers!

An important advantage of the Animation Overhaul mod is that you can add your own animation types or edit existing ones. This is a huge system, which you can complement with almost anything you want: movements of certain body parts, a standard character control system, and a wide range of settings. It’s hard to comprehend, but in the future, this set will allow you to create full-fledged masterpieces in the Minecraft style, both movies and just new game content. Take full advantage of the Animation Overhaul add-on and share the animation mods you also use in your build in the comments!