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Lizkay — on the run - animated scene
Published: 2009-06-01 17:13:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 16571; Favourites: 524; Downloads: 791
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After Effects Animation...This counts as a so called "limited" animation, as there is "only" one base image used, this time I needed like 30 parts or so, each leg, each hair part, etc. etc. animated using the puppet tool and wave mesh in AfterEffects. Even though I've been working over a year with it now, there is so much to learn...
Base image of this is here: [link]
Fullview shows the whole thing in a rather good quality as a flash-animation, it's a frame-by-frame thing though, just saved it as a flash file so I can put it up here.
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Thanks! 
There are a few more things that really bug me.. the movement of the horse's head, the tail, the rider in general..etc. I did a lot less as I wanted to do with it in the beginning, badly I had to work blind at the end as the preview refused to work for me, so I would just count it in as a "try" in animation, do hope I can do something better when I have more time and better references I actually searched quite a while but couldn't really find any good ones..
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^_^ Yeah. References can be hard to find. Don't look at jumpers or barrel races... they don't know the basics of riding either. They only know how to hang on for dear life and hope they don't fall. If you want a really good reference for a horse and rider in motion, don't look up riders at all. Look up the horses. Lipizzaner Horses are particularly graceful (horse and rider) for instance.
But it is still pretty darn good for a "try". the lines are very crisp and it is overall well drawn. My best shot at animation myself is my avatar... and I accidentally saved the small icon over the larger file
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Sieht mal richtig flüssig aus, mich stört nur, dass die Wirbelsäule so bleibt, wie sie ist, statt sich zusammen zu ziehen und wieder zu strecken. So erscheint das Pferd ziemlich steif.
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Danke
Naja, der Rücken bewegt sich da gar nicht soviel, sonst würd' man ja beim Reiten ziemlich viel rumhopsen
(ich hab das hier als Ref. benutzt, da bleibt der Körper eigentlich relative gleich während der Laufphasen: [link] )
Ich glaub die Hinterhand hätte etwas mehr Bewegung vertragen
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Nicht ganz *mecker*
Da wurde ja nur die Bewegungsszene abgebildet, in der das Pferd sich nach vorne streckt, die anderen Bilder sind die selben. Außerdem bewegt sich selbst da der Rücken, das siehst du relativ deutlich direkt hinter dem Sattel. Sogar der Bach wird eingezogen.
Wenn du den Rücken gleich lässt, sollte der eher gerade sein als wie bei dir... hier bildet er eher einen Bogen nach oben.
Das Kopfgewackel wurde ja schon bemängelt
Guck mal, ich hab was gefunden: [link]
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Heh, naja ist ja auch ein ganz weites Stück von perfekt entfernt die Anim da
war ja auch mehr mal ein Versuch ob ich sowas wie laufen überhaupt hinkireg 
Obwohl ich fast schon glaub dass die starke Bewegung vom Hals zuviel ist und der Rücken vielleicht gar nicht gekrümmt sein sollte, eigentlich bewegt der sich ja, wenn ich das Teil ohne Reiter und Sattel anschau.. aber ja da geht so einiges verloren.
Kann ja mit dem nicht mehr soviel machen da das File einige Macken hat 
und der Link is gut, das heb ich mir auf
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Ich mecker halt gerne rum... das, was du da geschafft hast, würd ich noch nicht so gut hinbekommen, vor allem weil mir die Software zu Flash noch fehlt
Ich find's trotzdem toll!
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The shading is flawless, the movement is smooth, the colours give you a sense of the heat of the environment - wow!
The mane and tail look excellent - perfect movement for them!
The only thing I could mention is the movement of the head - it bounces up and down much like a canine's head while running. Horses tend to 'push' through the air with their heads: [link] and their head movements are very smooth rather than bouncy.
I hope that helps! Once again, beautiful work!
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Thanks a lot!
I definitely agree with that head-movement, I do missed a curve on the end-key there as well, so there is a little "hop" as well, I think it would already help alot if the way the head goes up and down would be shorter and more forward
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Welcome! Still, a beautiful piece and something you should be proud of.
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Nice.
But i think you could make it much better still with your talent.
And, don't you have all the time you want?
You could make a longer project. Who's stopping you? Or what?
Cheers!
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Maybe..maybe..
I actually hit a lot of limits creating this, talent-,time- and tool-wise.
Oh and there is so much going on that limits my time, fulltime-job, real life issues, etc. etc. if I have 1-2 hours a day for art stuff like that it's a lot
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Well, can't you do so, that you keep on working on a project for... well, weeks? Taking one or two hours from that day, more or less from that, and so on? Wouldn't that work for bigger projects? Or do you feel compelled to finish them too quickly?
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Oh that is what I already do now, normally I need around a week for a pic until it gets finished, using freetime that way...
I also tend to loose interest if an artpiece takes me too long
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you should totally make a short looping animation of CAB running Transforming into his alt mode then transforming and running.
That would be sweet!
Btw. this turned out reeeeeeeeeeeeally good.
the only tiny thing I'd critique about it is, in most cases when horses are running this fast, the man would be either bounching(hurting his rear) or standing in the saddle, because I've always been told that a horses kidneys are really close to where you sit.
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I already had that stated as part of that Demoreel we just canceled
I even have C.A.B.'s arm-part transformation as animated sketch-sequence and a rough storyboard laying around as I wanted to do his TF:A style-like transformation as 2D animation, never really got to do more than a few steps but I do hope I can finish it at all as I really want to
I am not too happy with the rider position there at all, I do had in mind that he is supposed to sit on there kinda "gawky" being injured and all that.. but eh, was just a try, do hope I can re-touch it, but the file just doesn't like me
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still though hun, you did a really great job on it.
you almost can't tell it loops
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holy crap man, this looks really good.
I've done pretty simple animations in flash and short .gif's before, so I can appreciate how much work went into this... great job
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Holy crap this is incredible. I can't believe you animated all that just by yourself, I can't imagine the time you had to have invested in that!
Out of curiosity, did you go to art school or is all of this self-taught work?
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Many thanks!
All digital art stuff I do is self-taught, as there is simply no way for me to learn it where I live
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WOW! That looks AMAZING! Must of been a pain to animate, huh?
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Many thanks!
quite the pain.. specially at the end, after too many layers I had to work blind as the preview started to die..
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wow this is amazing, it looks so awesome animated. Very nicely done
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