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Does anyone know how to animate ponies? If so could you teach me a little bit about it?
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Sprouting Bulb
draw pony. then draw pony again in slightly different position. repeat until satisfied. Frank & Ollie wrote a great book on it about a century ago.
in all seriousness, the show used Flash puppet animation, so i'd suggest learning that. i also recommend studying how the characters in the show mo... View More
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May 7, 2024
Rosie Posie
alrighty!
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May 8, 2024
Pandora
it's really just frame by frame work, easiest would be to start off with colorful sketches [example; blue color for the head, red for the mane] frame one done, lower opacity, add new layer do the same thing but adjust the pose slightly
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May 8, 2024
Pandora
like i use blue for the pony itself but normally would use different color for the mane [ sorry this is a bad gif i made as example a long time ago xD]
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May 8, 2024
Pandora
personally i find using photoshop to piece everything together easy if it's an animation without music; [cause the frame rate is really easy to adjust]
Otherwise, sony vegas but then you have to drop every frame and adjust the framerate by dragging it around. It's just much more complicating.
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