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Published: 2005-07-14 17:11:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 3899; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 730
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Yang, a Gryphon-Race of Therpa (they are called Gampeo there)Otter - Dog like creatures with a strange tail, Yang is the "sheepdog" of Dun in the Story "Stoneheart"
I know the animation is far away from being perfect or correct.. my first try to get a digitalized one of a sketch, this one is 100% drawn by me, you can see the animated sketch here:
[link]
The movement of the tail and the head need to be fixed
UPDATED
Fixed the head and added a tweening, should be more fluid now
.. ugh.. I think that's too much tweening, I better remove that later
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Comments: 33
Great work, even if agree with what you say on it not being fluid enough. The head and tail is a bit skippy, but the legs look wicked. can't wait until you get the hang of this!
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Thankies!
Already tried to fix the head a bit, but that still needs some work, also the tail of course, I want to put that on a website.. when it looks acceptable, I really wonder that the colors still look quite nice in GIF format
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I'm waiting for the day that happens.
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I agree the head and tail look a little jumpy, but the legs are FLAWLESS. Well done!
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Thanks a bunch!
I am working on a better version of this, the tail needs a more "fluid" movement, I already have a whip-like movement drawn for it, but I am not sure anymore if it fits to the rest
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wow u did well and smooth on da movement
you deserve a fave
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Love the smooth movements. It takes patience to do animation like that.
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Wow o.o that's awesome 
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Thanks a bunch!
Generally in the story "it" is a He, I was never sure about the name, Yang sound very female, no?
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awesome as usual
I'm looking forward to head fixed though
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Thankies!
I will fix that stuff and update this piece here, not sure when I will be able to upload it, hopefully soon
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run run run! D
its running off to awesomeness, i can tell.
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Many Thanks!!! ^______^
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It needs to be a bit more fluid, there should be animation references around the net for that. Maybe more keyframes re needed or maybe it needs more balance, i really havent studied the animal walk cycles but there should be some online. If you really are intrested, ill see if i can search on my end.
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I have a book about cell- general animtion, its generally for distance-learning, its really great, the only prob. is that all the stuff is for more comic-like movements, not 100% natural ones. I must add, I only paid attention to the legs and generally ignored the other movements, I will try to put it all in a better balance, so that the frames don't jump, also the head and the tail will get a defined movement, A Keyframing programm would be practical so that you can make 20 frames out of these 8, but I don't found anyone in the net yet.
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Are you using "The animator's survival guide" too? ...its my bible !!!!!! 
*searches around*
Here i think i found something that might help ya :
[link]
This site has various walk cycles, ull have to look around for the animal ones ^_^;;
Hope it helps.
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I am using a complete collection-book of Preston Blair's smaller booklets , with character animation, synchro-animation and various other stuff like perspective animation and so on.. quite also a bible, and a really heavy book
hmm, the link don't works for me, it seems that the server there is down, I just get an empty blanc site.
I used Photoshop for coloring and Fireworks for animating, I think also ImageReady allows key-framing, I have flash too, I should play a bit more with these programms
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Oh yeah the blair man, i have a site showing some his methods....Ah crap its down and updated...... [link] Hm never tried firework for animation, cant shake off the fact that i am hooked to the onion skin animating technique. But em, the site should work, ive just clicked o_O
As for toonboom, well you can get it the way most da users got photoshop....you know what i mean -_-;;
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Oh, hey, the link works now, possible that it was my connection, .. which is a peeving thing
and yep, know what you mean with the toonboom studio, I think there is a free version of Mirage, for course useage or something like that, or it is even free if you don't use it for commercial stuff, I work with it in my firm and so far its the best Animation programm I ever had
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Thats looks real nice Liz n.n
Like you said, the head just needs fixing to stop it 'bobbing' around so much, and you could put a real nice whip-like movement on the tail. The feet look awesome though!
^____^
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Thankies!
I think I focused on the legs too much and ignored the rest 
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You're welcome!
The legs are the most important part anyway, it makes sense that you concentrated on those n.n
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wow that's really awesome Lizkay and i'm proud on how you made that animation because i am surprised that you do those like SuziDragonlady did
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