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Alan-the-leopard — Animation frame colored.
Published: 2013-12-04 11:29:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 759; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 7
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Currently am I working on two or three animations -following the classic frame-by-frame method- that are all very likely to remain uncolored. One of them is the classic test on a character walking as seen sideways, using my leopard fursona (who else, otherwise?...
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This is supposed to be the simplest of all the animations, but still, no way does it mean that it is piece of cake- tsk-tsk-tsk XP I need to divide the animation into different phases. First, concentrating on the character as such, without his dots, and the movement of his legs. Then will I add his dots, but I have to make sure that they stay in their rightful place... and do you know how many spots do leopards have all over?... XP
To make things yet more complicated, Alan is supposed to limp, since his left hind leg is not totally healed yet, and that implies "extra" movements on his head, reflecting pain while walking
As you can see, not as easy at it seems. So far, Im happy with the softness of the movement of Alan´s legs, but I am having problems with the synchronization of one or two of those. In any case, I liked so much how did the first frame turn out that I couldn´t resist but coloring it.
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I really like the movement in this picture. Even if it is not really "moving" like an animation, his movement is visible. ^^
A leopard fursona is very rare. I mostly hear of snow leopards as fursona, but normal african leopards... They are more rare here on DA than it's cousins from the Mountains XD
Or at least I haven't seen so much around here ^^
Very creative
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Thank you very much, Kiwano
Precisely, the reason why a went for a leopard as my fursona is not just because leopards (so elegant, beautiful, streamlined, agile and strong at the same time... and intelligent) are my favorite big cats (followed by jaguars and cougars/pumas), but also because not even at fanart.lionking.org there seem to be many leopards- in fact there are very, very few, mostly if we compare them with lions. Furthermore, most of the cartoon characters that I have designed so far on big cats are African leopards, some (like Alan himself) "purer" in race than others
Ah, something that I forgot to mention in the file description was that to get the gist of how do leopards legs move, I had to watch a few scenes on leopards moving- "are the legs of the same side moving simultaneously or not?"... Tricky, tricky XP
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No problem
Indeed they are cool
An african leopard fursona is very unique 
Great job on Alans design ^^
About the walk cycle.
I'm rather new to animation, and I only animated run cycles and other stuff, but never walk cycles XD
Walk cycles are tricky XD
But this helped me very much analyze the movement (Even if this is a Tiger XD )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ib5OK…
Do you plan to upload the final animation of Alan ?
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Thanks on both the words and the link
Before going on with my animation (which will take me a fairly long time to complete, I guess) I have to make sure about what and why fails in the synchronization of Alan´s legs in what I´ve done so far... and I think that I found it out. I have made a few attempts on uploading a few of my animations here, but I always failed, so probably the only site that will see that animation (and all the others already uploaded) is fanart.lionking.org...
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