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Published: 2012-02-28 19:29:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 4912; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 159
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A quick test cycle that I made in my sketch book, scanned in and animated on photoshop. My old versions of this were very VERY wrong! I used the animators survival guide for help.Its about 14 frames.... The 'X' that pops up is the highest/lowest pelvis position. (Also, i was thinking of adding wings so a 'wing' shape pops up in a few frames as I was thinking about how it would move).
(C) to me but feel free to reference to for movement.
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any way i could get each single frame of this?
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This is referenced from a horse, isn't it?
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nope, a horse actually lands with its back legs as it's spine isnt as flexible as a carnivore.Β
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A horse in a canter does land back legs first, but a horse in full gallop runs like this upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
Dogs have more extension and can compress more at the extreme poses www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoL8Gtβ¦
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I think I was referencing the Richard William's Animator's Guide when I did this. It literally little doodles all next to each other in an A5 sketchbook when I look back on it! Met the man in real life and he is an absolute genius. His control of perspective in animation is incredible.Β
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I dunno, I did 4 years ago before my animation degree lol, I just never uploaded a better one since finishing my degree. Im working at Aardman now
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Wow that's really cool! What's it like to work there?
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pretty cool actually, Im at the academy bettering my stop frame skills using refurbished puppets from the pirates film. Everyone is so friendly up there its great, and Richard Williams have his studio there too so sometimes we get to see him and chat. Fantastic guy!Β
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Sounds like you're living the animator's life!
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This is very good! 
Is there any way to pause this or play it in slo-mo?
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Thanks very much! Ummmm, you can see the individual frames on Photoshop CS6 and Flash... or if you have a mac you can automatically see the individual ones. If you really want to get into animation, I high recommend 'The animator's survival guide' by Richard Williams. But get the extended edition as it has animal cycles in it.
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Alright, thanks!
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Thats amazing! It's so consistent! Nothing is shrinking or growing, I just bought the extended addition of the animators survival guide, I am overwhelmed by the detail of it!! This is a delightful piece of artwork! Drawing 4 legged creatures is so hard!
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Thanks
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Really? Wow, I better study it like no tomorrow
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Gorgeous, just gorgeous. Stunning. Amazingly well done.
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Thank you very much! I tried to do another one with more detail and it looks horrible! XD Animating is really hard!
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Aww I like it! It's gonna be so good when it's all finished ^^
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You have an issue with the figure's spine elongating instead of extending. To explain my terms, I see elongation as a kind of rubbery effect where extension uses the natural physical motions to uncurl the spine. At first, it tricked my eye into thinking the whole figure was cycling through a growth and shrinkage cycle throughout the run, but when I downloaded the image and went frame by frame, I caught the problem.
Even with that, this is rather impressive for a sketchbook animation. Did you have any way of overlaying the images (which might have helped you see the spine problem) or is the paper too opaque?
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Thank you so much for that! Didnt see that! No, my sketchbook is totally opaque, they were drawn in lines of 4, each one is only about an inch long (which is waaay to small) but it was only to try and get a sort of realistic, natural movement. I need to practise the squash and stretch principles a lot more though!
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i wish i could do something like that D: awesome!
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i love it
but the wolf seems to get smaller
almost as if hes going sideways or... just getting smaller
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