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R&M thing

Also I'm working on another R&M animation. Not sure if I can get it out for april fools or not though...

More of thing coming together

STICK

RD wants to smash

A quick example of animation utilizing the fluttershy rig swapped to RD, for the lemme smash joke animation (out real soon)

Rainbow Rig

Also made a rainbow dash rig out of flutters base for a later thing. The hardest part was just remaking the eyes a bit since teh mane have distinct eye brows.

Lemme smash

Pls

Boop

Flutter inquires about booping action

Front expression ex

Final spin rig~

Spin tail

With black eyes

Animating the storyboards

Its begun~

Rotation horse intensifies

Insert spin music here.mp3

Rig test renders

A show of what the non aliased rig from the wip shots looks like when tis actually being rendered~

Rig near completion

Pony rig is almost completed, probably the most complex thing i've built thus far (each side required its own mouth/eye shapes, the mouth layer has 160 seperate mouths in it for all sides!).

The best news of this is that since this is now the first toonboom fully rigged pony i'll be able toreuse it for all the other pony projects!

The nsfw parts of course will have redraws for positons but the core work of expressions/angles is all ready!

After shy animation

Also after I finish shy I had two things in mind: working on SFW for youtube (non pony) and NSFW with more pony (from what I pondered I decided to just keep pony animations to nsfw while i focus on non nsfw for other projects).

I had a few ideas but your input helps on who would be next. I have a few ideas in te options and leaning towards rarity next but let's see what people think.

Shy polling

Interesting discussion emerged in a thread, curios to see what you guys like best

Head rig nodes

For those who are interested in toonboom (if any!)

head rig cont

head rig cont

Head rig exs

The rigging for ponies in toonboom has continued to grow and the head rig alone is at absurdity levels (albiet now it can be used for any of mane6 or other ponies).

Preference on human/pony

Heya! Another poll I've been meaning to do for future stuff!

How much setup in animation.

Question whether the setup is important to an animation or if it should start off at the action without any kind of explanation/setup/dialogue

How many setup an animation has.

Is an animation introduction like this for the mp4 something that interests people, or is skipping it entirely and just starting straight at the action a better thing (would people see the intro once and then skip it every time to get to the action, like ZonkPunches animations).

Male character of flutter animation

Which characters is the male role and focus?

Question of plot 1

I'm gonna post two polls for questions related to the flutters animation.

The working progress of it is using big mac as the center piece, the question is whether this works or if it would be better if it was a nameless OC stand in stallion instead (albeit big mac really only yup or nope).

I can swap big mac out for the nameless oc as it would onl be a recolor with the existing rig.

Merry x-mas and happy holidays

Not sure what you guys celebrate but hope you all have a good one! The FS storyboards are nearing completing and since it's now january/feb (Ive mentioned it before, they are youtube dead months) the FS project is the only thing i've been working on. Hoping to have it fully released the upcomign month or early february! 

Will start posting progress animation gifs of it soon (albeit it will be slight spoilers).

It's been quite interesting to work on this like I would do a yt except ...

Wip3

And with a light controller applied. not sure whether this light style works with colored outlines or if its too much, but this is what a rendered version looks like as a quick example.

Wip2 stuff

Also a neat eye shade property i figured out. I can do eye blinks for the sulty eyes without having to redraw all the eye shapes between the upper brow and main brow~

WIP stuffs

Since i was doing all the storyboards and redoing the main rig I just wanted to show what the new flutter head was looking like. Quite happy with the bouncy hair that will work on all angles!

Interactivity vs movie.

Since the last post and comments on the video format I started looking for examples of whether it was possible to blend the two. 

I did discover liru and it seems like an interesting mix that works like a progressive movie control (albeit size being huge, but i think that can be acceptable if it's instead not online but downloadble only, perhaphs the online can be a trailer instead).

Is something like liru a better way of control the action vs a straight up mp4?

Story question

Hey guys/gals another post about the story.

How does this sound:

Viewer browses through a tinder like app (but it's set in equestria/ponyville) and comes across shy.

Scene changes to a restaurant where you meet up with her, and a mini date sort of starts. As time progresses shy drops an item carelessly and asks viewer to retrieve it under the table, where after doing so shy quickly reveals her goods to the viewer (the table has cloth on it so the entire thing is covered,...