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I've made one walk cycle ever, three years ago. It was of a cervid. It did not have wings. Or feathers. Or color. So naturally the next step was the winged, feathered, gradiented, striped monstrosity that is Noctla. Sooo... two months of time and one and a half weeks of actual work later, here we are.

I am a masochist.

In all honesty, this didn't really take a long time, just a lot of mental effort. I finished the sketches in two days, the lines in two or three days, and the colors in about a week. Along the way was a lot of exceptional nitpicking that unfortunately still didn't catch all the issues. I know this still isn't perfect; the gradient on the tail jumps around a lot and some blue got smeared into it from the feathers because photoshop is a bitch has a really crappy blur tool so I had to use the weird "mixer brush" tool that has the unfortunate habit of picking up colors that are well outside the range of your brush; some of the stripes jump around a little too much for my liking, especially the spotty bits; I had to modify some of Noctla's markings, namely reducing them as they went further down her legs, because I couldn't make them fit; her far ear should probably be visible; there should probably be some back and forth on her head; and, of course, I really didn't quite nail the leg pattern but I didn't really realize it until I was done with the lines, and because the motion of every part of the body connects, I'd've had to redo the entire thing to fix it and I wasn't about to do that.
So uh, if you notice any issues, don't tell me yet, I probably know but I want to pretend people won't notice lol

So kids, the takeaway: there is a reason animated characters don't have gradients, complicated color patterns, or a million limbs. I knew this going in but apparently I wanted to do Noctla anyway because in case you haven't heard I guess I'm a masochist. Eugh. And uh, I'm really not sure why I decided I had to do the walk cycle now but whatever. Tis done.

If anybody seems to be interested, I might make a P2U walk cycle base or maybe commishes or something. I dunno.

Description
I've made one walk cycle ever, three years ago. It was of a cervid. It did not have wings. Or feathers. Or color. So naturally the next step was the winged, feathered, gradiented, striped monstrosity that is Noctla. Sooo... two months of time and one and a half weeks of actual work later, here we are.

I am a masochist.

In all honesty, this didn't really take a long time, just a lot of mental effort. I finished the sketches in two days, the lines in two or three days, and the colors in about a week. Along the way was a lot of exceptional nitpicking that unfortunately still didn't catch all the issues. I know this still isn't perfect; the gradient on the tail jumps around a lot and some blue got smeared into it from the feathers because photoshop is a bitch has a really crappy blur tool so I had to use the weird "mixer brush" tool that has the unfortunate habit of picking up colors that are well outside the range of your brush; some of the stripes jump around a little too much for my liking, especially the spotty bits; I had to modify some of Noctla's markings, namely reducing them as they went further down her legs, because I couldn't make them fit; her far ear should probably be visible; there should probably be some back and forth on her head; and, of course, I really didn't quite nail the leg pattern but I didn't really realize it until I was done with the lines, and because the motion of every part of the body connects, I'd've had to redo the entire thing to fix it and I wasn't about to do that.
So uh, if you notice any issues, don't tell me yet, I probably know but I want to pretend people won't notice lol

So kids, the takeaway: there is a reason animated characters don't have gradients, complicated color patterns, or a million limbs. I knew this going in but apparently I wanted to do Noctla anyway because in case you haven't heard I guess I'm a masochist. Eugh. And uh, I'm really not sure why I decided I had to do the walk cycle now but whatever. Tis done.

If anybody seems to be interested, I might make a P2U walk cycle base or maybe commishes or something. I dunno.