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FlamingoRich — DR Twilight Sparkle Puppet Rigs v1.1
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Published: 2012-05-01 05:20:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 56549; Favourites: 688; Downloads: 3060
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Flamingo1986 (Zachary Rich) is proud to present the front, three-quarters, and profile flash puppet rigs for Twilight Sparkle being used for his next pony animation - Double Rainboom!You can download the .FLA in CS4.0 format in the "GALLERY" section of the film's official website here: [link]
v1.2 ► (Coming soon!) Back 3-Quarters view.
v1.1 ► (June 15th, 2012) Secondary hair pieces, teleportation SPFX.
v1.0 ► (May 1st, 2012) Official release - front, 3Q, & profile views fully nested with mouths, eyelids, cheeks, ears, magic SPFX, and other general body parts.
Woot! Version 1.1 is out! Let me know what you all think!
CREDITS
• Zachary Rich (assets, rigging)
• Kurt Smith (assets, rigging) [link]
• Michelle LaPalme (assets)
• Rachel McWhirter (assets) [link]
• Christer Jensen (assets)
• Travis Tessmer (assets)
• Sean Simon (assets)
• Eric Kurzmack (assets)
OTHER PUPPETS
• MLPFiM Original characters created by Lauren Faust & DHX Media • MLPFiM © Hasbro Inc. • Double Rainboom is no way designed to infringe upon the rights of Hasbro and DHX Media. It is, completely and utterly, a fan-made concept and intended for free distribution for the promotion of My Little Pony.
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Comments: 209
This is so amazing! It's hard to believe that this is actually fan made! The attention to details is absolutely killer 
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Nopers - it's only about $120.00
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Yipes! Are we talking about the same thing here!?
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Weeeeird - I did a little more studying of the prices and discovered that they vary a lot! Check this out: [link]
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Dayum, that's so perplexing x~x I look at it and have to do a triple-take because I think 'there's no way they're selling it that low', especially when the others are in the hundreds!
Not that I'm complaining, but whaaaa? xD I seriously felt like they were trolling.
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Really?
I'm getting false information...
( - - ; )
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last time I checked flash is like 800$, just with 80% student discount ^^
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I cant even begin to understand this, wowzers.
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saw this on your web site, and now i can view it closer. this is damn impressive.
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Thanks!
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i can tell, i must learn your ways as i am learning and interested in animation, and this is hellish good. what animation programe do you plane to use. Flash 5.5, flash pro 8 (the one the team MLP team uses), other?
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We're creating everything in Flash CS5.5
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i also noticed on your web site some 3d modeled stuff. what program is that?
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Oh yeah! In our concept area. That science table was created in Autodesk Maya so that we could keep the science table's contents consistent while changing camera angles.
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i figured that. im also learning 3d modeling through autodesk 3d max, and it looked similar. what i dont like about that programe is that it only runs on PC, so i cant use the programe at home. it looks good. take it you do the models, then add textures, render, and use it as the backdrop for your animation.
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Nope - we only use the 3D models for basic blocking (like what's in our concept folder). Then we screencap it, toss it in Flash or Illustrator - and draw the backgrounds using the screencap as a tracing guide.
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that sounds even easier, not a bad idea. sorry if i seem to ask a lot of questions, but the technical stuff intrigues me and and would like to put what i learn from this kinda of stuff into future works i do. I love all the stuff you guys have done so far, and can't wait to see more ^_^
thanks for replying to me, and wish the best of luck to you ^_^
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No sweat! Feel free to ask us any questions - we love sharing our process with the community.
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great, if i have another question then ill shall aks later, but ill leave you alone for now
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sweet! ill be getting my hands on that programe this week. trying to learn as much as i can so i can do some animation myselfs. i even have a story board of one on my page that i plan on doing, but im more exited for this. you guys are doing amazing work already.
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This is just awesome, thank you for sharing!
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It's nice to see all those mouths I (we) worked on looking so polished and ready to go! Great job team!
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Woot! Agreed! Now to translate them all over to Rainbow Dash . . .
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oh wow and iwas going to do this all from scratch for my MLP game project...
couse i still need to t do the 3/4 fro behind view
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Well if you wait a week then this puppet rig will be updated to v1.1 (and that includes the 3/4 behind view).
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Twilight's teleport:
Are you gonna use the subtle ''arcane'' sound effect from S1 ?
Or are you gonna use the lightning bolt ''bang'', sound effect used more in S2?
Or a whole new sound effect?
Also are you gonna make a new visual for Twilight's teleport, or you're gonna replicate either the white one from S1, or the purple-red one from S2?
''Arcane''
[link]
''Bang''
[link]
And the next question is more about the animation angles.
In Flash there's usually just 4-9 clear different angles and they make the characters speak in one of them? Cause if you count how many deegrees there are(360), it would have to be one hell of a library to form from bottom to top.
Or it's a completely different thing to have a character able to do a 360spin or a lot of head angles for the transitions, than have them talk and make face expressions in like 81 angles instead of 9-16?
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As far as sounds go, that's not really my forte. Most of these SFX will depend on my sound design team (headed by Mandopony).
And for angles - yes - there are six main angles to a pony (front, 3/4, profile, back 3/4, low-angle, and high-angle). Whenever a pony has to hit an angle that's in between those six, the animator has to take the existing puppet and pose it in a way to make that angle happen.
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Andrew Stein is part of the team?! 
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i think i can wait, now all i need is RD, and Spike since the opening cutscen is Spike, RD, and Twilight
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this is absolutely amazing, I love how you made it so complex, it's just like the show!
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Hmm That looks so good. I wish I could create something like that. It would make a lot of things really easy.
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It sucks that I dont get to play with these because I'm still stuck on CS4, but do you mind if I use these to reference my puppet anyway?
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Sure! Go right ahead - and if you need a CS4 version of the puppet - send your request to doublerainboomcrew@gmail.com
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I really want to get into animation, so I can understand this XS. Either way it looks so detailed and intricate, with the different perspectives being shown. I can only imagine that this took a long time to create, either way your team did a great job! Keep up the work with this type of talent the animation is bound to be epic!
My only question is that for the more dynamic perspectives, such as a camera angle looking down on any of the mane 6, will you make rigs for those or is that a one time thing?
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We have a few shots with low & high angles - so we'll be constructing puppets for those views as well. (And thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it.)
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ohhh so thats what you were working on! nice
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...what's ear position three for?
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It's a rare ear that Twilight sometimes uses to express a more subtle emotion (usually one of embarrassment or shame). Normally though - ponies use the second ear position for the downward shape.
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You put a lot of work into this. I hope it pays off for you. OOO! I just had a thought. Perhaps one who's smarter than me, and has more time than you could use these assets to modify generalzoi's pony creator to work at different angles, like 3Q.
...wait...by-nc-nd!? DAMN YOU NODERIVS LICENCES!!!
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Thanks! And er... "by-nc-nd"?
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The CC licence...don't tell me you didn't notice you licenced this under CC!
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Gah! 
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What do you have against CC?
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I have nothing against it! But in this case, this puppet is meant to be used as freeware. So forcing bronies to ask my permission every time they want to use it just seems unnecessary.
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AH! Then may I recommend a by-nc or by-nc-sa licence! Don't scrap CC altogether. Because if you do, that would mean they would legally have to ask your permission every time.
Creative Commons: It's the shizniz!
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oh! Well then I shall do that!
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