Attempting to create reference sheets for Honey so that physical Honeycrisp merch can one day be mine! Not bad for a first pass I think, though I always find Honeycrisp tricky to visualize in a 3D way. I know how she's meant to look, I just find it hard to keep her consistent... you can see in this gif that it isn't perfect and yet here we are! Attempting to give it a go! Maybe I'll get better!
made a little gif of my ponysona Teeheehee it’s not perfect but I haven’t like Actually animated since forever ago soooo Whatever! so joyous fun whimsical and utterly delightful okay GoodbyeTumblr I wish you well,,,
Not trying to rag on this since it was literally the pilot, but I do love how clearly you can see the frame where she shifts into TWILIGHT_WALK_CYCLE.fla here.
I always get a lot of comments about the 2-key pony keyboard. I wanted to explain how I think they could work.
I've been told there is an input device called orbiTouch which works on the same principle.
"Beware the Well of Shade, for the shadows run deep through its endless walls and twisting caverns"
I've been messing around with this rig on and off for awhile, but I finally finished this little side project making a short scene in the style of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
I've never been quite happy with how Starswirl the Bearded looked in the show when he finally appeared but, last year I happened upon a really cool fan design of Starswirl by the user Orin311 that I fell in love with. I decided to make a one view puppet rig this year directly based off their vector art as a surprise, complete with show style lip sync and a full walk cycle. One thing led to another in adding a background, a few illustrator texture brushes, multiple sound effects, re-purposing some old fire animation of mine and suddenly it became a whole completed scene. With such a cool wizard design, the choice for using Gandalf's voice to test the rig with was a no brainier. The background is based on the Well of Shade location in the Season 7 finale of MLP.
I had a lot of fun making this and it was great practice for some future personal animation projects I wanna start next year!
Credits for the character design and sound effects listed below
Starswirl fan design by Orin331
Lord of the Rings audio
fire audio
rocks and pebble audio
magic effect audio
horse walking audio