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[pecan]

Beautiful piece of art, Soul! <3 Elise looks gorgeous even without the jewelry.

[Tyasi]

That is awesome soulbridge! Laziness gets the best of us. x3

Well, I've noticed during the streams I did for free sketches, the first thing people ask for is humans. So I decided to make a chibi base (male and female...thats right I managed to make a male) I want it to be very versatile in eye choices and expressions, so I'm still working on it! C: Hopefully I can finish it today.

Join me is over.

Edit: Thanks for coming! C: I'll try to make some example ones later and release slots.

[Silverhart]

Congrats Sweetypie! And wow soulBridge! That picture is awesome! I love the pose.

So, I figured I'd stretch the ol' animation muscles a bit, because I had a small cold this past week and have been bored out of my mind. It took all of three nights (and part of one day) to draw all the frames, and I barely slept, but it was so worth it. (And it took almost as long to scan it and put it all together, because my computer is dumb, and I don't have any kind of animation program. You'll notice at a few points there's some jumps in the animation, and while some of them might be mistakes on my part, it's mostly because my computer or my scanner messed up the frames. I need to find a good, cheap animation program with onion skin and fps stuff. I'm not even sure how I managed to piece this together. So if anyone has any suggestions for an animation program like that, let me know okay?)
So, coming in at 68 individual frames (and who knows how many loops), and 20 seconds is my animation of Lóegaire transitioning from a four legged walk, into a four legged run, into a hop, into a two legged run/flap, and finally, take-off! I just always see Lóegaire as using his wings like forelegs - to me it just seems like he'd be too top heavy to be comfortable walking on two legs all the time. Plus, he just looks cooler that way in my opinion, so I decided to try animating how he might walk/run. It was tons of fun to do, other then the running parts which got pretty messed up. But I got to use motion blur for the first time! My favorite part is his little hop! Certain frames just look like he's pouncing on something, and it's so cute:

Definitely going to color one of these when I find the time! Anyway, without further ado, click on this to see the animation, and I apologize for the bad quality:

I used the Muybridge horse in motion photo sequences (gallop and walk) as reference, but only for the beats as Lóegaire's wing/forelegs are more like a bird/bear's then a horse's (I couldn't find any good frame-by-frame bear references).

For comparison my animation of Osraige was around 18 frames I think, and my longest single shot of animation is roughly 100 frames, although it's much simpler and at a higher frame rater.
Also, some advice: it's really hard to animate something moving in place. I couldn't really do anything about it because I'd have to make Lóegaire really small to fit the whole sequence in, but it's still good advice. Animate your walk/run/whatever sequences moving across the page, rather then in one place. It gives you a lot less to do later on, like sliding legs backwards. And once it's in a computer you can line it up so it's walking in place anyway.

You know, if we all did a few seconds of animation we'd have like... a whole minute of animation total. XD

[Jendalie]

Silver, that is a very impressive and excellent animation!

Hope you get to feeling better. (:

[Benathorn]

Amazing animation Silver!
That's pretty much how all Drakes walk (I always imagined them on all fours too. Especially since they are Alabaster City's Calvary.)
Loved it! <3

[pecan]

That's really good, Silver! I can only make simple animations like ear twitches and tail flicks, and I doubt I'll have the patience to make those amazing animations like yours XD I mostly use iaza for animating, and it's pretty much okay for me. Anyway I hope you're feeling better, too. c:

Edit: I made an animation of Shiawase a few days ago, but my computer is being a brat and wouldn't let me upload it. So I'll just try to root out my computer's problem so I could share it with you guys. ^^

[Silverhart]

Thank you guys. I'm more or less over my cold, it just took so long to get the thing all put together.

That's pretty neat Bena. I've just always imagined drakes using their wings as forelegs. Now I'd like to see what a cavalry of Drakes charging would look like. ^^

I'll have to look up iaza. I may've heard of it, but I'm not sure what it is.

[Twisted_Swallow]

Wow silver, really amazing

[.sweetypie.]

Thanks Silver <3
That's amazing!!
Your animation is gorgeous, I love the anatomy!
I can't wait to see it colored <333

[flyteck]

Silver... holy crap. That's so amazing O.O
/dies