New Gallery: Ultima Online Monster Animations
Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and to the hard work of both him and the team at the Wing Commander CIC, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present five animated sequences of Ultima Online game assets. These were originally just several series of images, but have been rendered to animated GIFs for web display. If I get more ambitious, I’ll render these and the Ultima 8 monster animations in a QuickTime-friendly format as well.
These animations were, presumably, discovered in the deep recesses of the Origin archives at Electronic Arts (BioWare Mythic), and were likely copied during the Origin Archive Project done in the summer of 2008.
Looks good. I think all of those graphics are identical to what eventually found their way into the commercial release of Ultima Online.
The models certainly look the same… But I think some of these movements didn’t make it in. But I may just not remember. I’d have to go check.
A few of those are definately not used in the official release – the sea serpent and daemon attacks stand out, not sure about the rest as they are very similar to the release versions if not the same.