Ambits

Yes, I am still working on my animation. After more than a month of barely touching it due to finals, family, Reddit, programming, and video games, I'm putting some significant time into the animation now. I've gotten the main Fluttershy animation to a point that I am satisfied with. Now I'm working on tracing all of the components of the background and making it loop with some parallax.

Wow, I've got so much work due tomorrow. Today is not going to be a good day. I need to write a cover letter for my capstone design class, I have to make a 30 minute presentation on a topic that no one in my group has any motivation to work on, I need to write a 5 page film analysis, and I have an exam to study for. Ugh. The rest of the week is going to be a breeze compared to this. Hopefully I can find some time to play Skyward Sword!

After thinking about it over Thanksgiving break, I've decided to animate Fluttershy's walk animation from the May The Best Pet Win song. I'm was originally worried about the difficulty of making this work, but then I realized that I have no time constraints on this, so it doesn't really matter much! I'm working on vectoring a frame from the trot right now. It needs to be broken up at the joints (including one for the piece of her hair that falls behind her head) in a way that will let me rotate them without breaking the stroke lines. I'm not sure if it's possible to do the mouth with tweens. I may have to animate that frame by frame. I hope