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It might also help it to run smoother if you choose to download it instead of previewing it on the page :>So yeah, I have a sudden urge to animate today. Whipped this up in about an hour and a half. This will be turned into an animated icon for my brother *ReyTiger and features his fursona, an anthropomorphic Tiger.
Both Rey, and my brother in real life, are "Traceurs" so I wanted to give him a cool icon to use. As far as I know, no one has animated anthro (digitigrade) doing parkour/freerunning so haha, take that bitches! Practically no video reference for this either so I'm pretty proud of it considering.
But I need some critiques. It'll be a bitch and a half to size this down for DA (the color version anyway) but I want some feedback on the movement. I'm going to work on another version in the meantime since I was thinking about changing some things. I don't quite like how he does a backflip twice and I'd kinda like to include the trademark Parkour roll in there...
So I'm wondering if I should change it so he's running infinitely to the right: Start the animation at the vault and when he cats the wall on the right, instead of a backflip 180, he'll keep going right and drop down to a roll and then immediately repeat the vault. I'm also adding camera movement, this is just so you can see the overall scene. The other suggestion is instead of a wall flip 180, change it to a wall spin... just for some variety.
I was thinking of maybe getting a close-up of his face at some point too... but since I worked so hard on the movement (not to mention I have a HUGE time/size constraint) I'm not sure I'll put that in there.
Feedback please! :3
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Goodness! You gave me quite a response, it's only natural that I return the favor. Thank you so very much for all your feedback! 
I'll get started on the next few tests so we can have some comparisons before I move on to the final concept. Glad you like my flipies, they were quite a challenge
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Well, I give credit where it's deserved, and you're certainly earning my kudos, there. **Grins, Nods** I don't take the critique job lightly, so I'm pretty much the stickler...but so far you've been FAR above the Average of 2.5 Stars, and you're keeping yourself firmly planted there.
Keep it up, li'l sister, you're making me very proud! 
Now come on over and share a hot chocolate or something. **Laughs** You never know when I'll be able to actually do that in real life...
...maybe this September...**Pondering a new convention to observe**
--Brother Abram
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Hot chocolate sounds lovely! In fact, I think I'm gonna go get my brother and see if he wants some too.
Ooohoho, reeeeeally now? :>>
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I'll be about in DreamStormingJams for another hour or so...Draga's there for a while too...just going over the Pokemorphic Roleplay stuff I'm planning to try to get together next month...but also just to hang out. 
As for conventions, since The Gathering of the Gargoyles ended this year, I really should get myself into another small convention with a few friends to show me the ropes...I should check out Nan Desu Kan, it seems like it would be small, has a lot more cosplayers (something that kinda fascinates me, being kind of an actor and former radio personality), and I've got friends in the area...so it's tempting to throw down a Coin Hoard and get a ticket to come on up....
But it's far too soon for me to commit to anything...YET. 
--Brother Abram
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Wah! This looks so nice! I have been looking for parkour animations for quite a while now, but it never occurred to me to look here at deviant, haha β₯
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looks like he could get tired pretty fast doing that :3
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its my dream to do something like this in rl e-e
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I've been trying to figure out HOW to make these kind of things. The drawing part is easy enough for me. It's the part where you put it on the computer is where I'm stumped.
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Great shit! Looks like a whole training lesson, good for practice!
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Looks great, i think a bit more variety with the vaults would be good though
p.s. what program did you use?
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That is an awaome animation! I wanna try parkour so badly!
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really awesome...lol love it got any more?
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What program did you use to make this. You did an AMAZING JOB BY THE WAY!!!!!!
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Animation, the greatest and most difficult thing one can do I think. Honestly... I think that this is extremely good, it isn't jumpy and jumpy motions in an animation is not good. I'm no animation expert, so i'll jusy say keep doing what yah are doing and maybe you can blow us away with your epic animations in the near future!
P.S. I'm faving this; too look back on to see how far you progressed throughout the years.
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Ah, thatΒ΄s brilliant and awesome, lass. Nicely done.
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That is really well done, I love it so far. You have a good eye for movement.
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*smears with love* This was an awesome 'surprise'
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Ah yes, again, I love enjoying all these awsome animations you just keep on spitting out. 8D Umm...well I'm not a animation student YET, so I can't really give you any advice. 
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yay other people who enjoy it as much as i do!
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I can't wait to see this finished! :'D
Hmm.. needs to be a squidge more... elastic? Like, more bounce in the movement, especially when he lands on something or makes a hard contact with another object. Otherwise, this will be flippin' sweet! It must be really, REALLY hard to animate these rough sketches- moreover, an anthro tiger running and leaping all over the screen!
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Me neither, I'm excited to work on it some more
I agree with you completely... I had infinite amount of struggling with the landings and transitions of movement.... I must have redrawn the landing of the 180 backflip at least 7 times. I think I'm gonna try to get some actual reference footage of my brother to iron out the kinks.
It is rather difficult, but the hardest part of timing and movement is pretty much over. All that's left is the time-consuming part XD Thanks for all your comments!
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>.> So like I cant right a crit the right way so here you go:
So very interesting idea you are going with! Liking it.
But if it was me, I would personal ruff the animations out in 3d first so that you may get the camera perspective as well as the animation down pat.
Though you may not have the means for this and I understand so as another option, keep ruffing out many camera angles, then you can mix them together with ease for the final.
I think the ruining with the volt at the start would work best for an icon. It will flow a lot easier to.
Good work so far though this will be interesting to watch develop.
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lawl, any crit is better than nothing XD
Thank you for your suggestions! Unfortunately my computer is out of commission therefore I'm unable to have access to 3DsMax for awhile. Hmmm, roughing it out in 3d is peculiar to me because traditionally you have some sort of a drawn concept for your base/reference, even as simple as a storyboard. But I'm liking this 2d experimenting for the movement and timing before transferring it to 3d... at least, that's how I'm currently planning to develop my workflow.
However I see your confusion: I'm not planning to take this animated icon into a 3D camera environment. What I mean by camera tracking is simply that I crop the area of the existing canvas to be only a square (the character would fill the frame) and then I follow him. It would simply be a tighter shot vs this overall view presented in the test. It'll be stuck as a boring side-view for now for the traditional animation version.
However! I do plan to take Rey to 3D someday and he would be the prime candidate for the coolio character animation and movement I've been wanting to experiment with. I have a long way to go still as I want to make sure I master the technique of creating a good mesh in order for the model to be animated correctly. I plan to start learning Maya on my own soon as I hear that's the program of choice for advanced character animation :3
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The way you make the models/animation is really up to witch method will be best for the project.
Though most of the time you are right. Even if I don't normally do it that way, when I am told to
The programs them selves don't matter what dose is you over all polly count.
Coming from the games side, the lower the better!
But if you are going for animation/Character work side of things that doesn't matter at all.
Again the best thing to do is ruff it out many many times. It will not only help you see flaws but it will make you think of things you woulnd't have normally.
Also this is defiantly going to be an interesting character to see develop in 3d!
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np reily i been watching u on youtube lately XD
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Parkour FTW! I know some friends who are really into parkour. But yea, that is so awesome, I can stare at that all day. Everything is in such a realistic fluid monition.
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Indeed! I love watching my brother and recording video of him doing it (one day he'll be good enough for us to upload some of it onto YouTube) Thanks for the comment
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Yea, I know what you mean. It's fun watching people run around and jumping over everything they come across. :3 And no problem, its very awesome.
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Curse you and your growing animation skillz! -fistshake-
No but really, this is looking good even for a rough draft. Your animation is getting really good, really fast. XD
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lawl, well thanks a bunch! I've been meaning to do more animations but I'm lazy and never find the time. In fact there's a million other things I SHOULD be doing right now XD
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Yeah well... Who cares about those things you SHOULD do? XD They're obviously not important! At least you're actually DOING animations. Unlike the big ol' lazy me. XD
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Very smooth. Looking forward to seeing the finished tiny icon version.
Misreading traceur as tracer led to some confusion xD
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Thank you! I hope the icon version works. I did an icon/camera tracking test though and I think it'll be fine :3
Oh yeah, that would definitely not be the same thing XD Easy to misread
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Also damn you for making me want to get back into doing animation xD
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Bwhaahah! My evil ways tempt you
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Wicked temptress!
So much work animating though blaaagh.
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Ahh! I love the flips! It looks really cool!
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Thank you! The flips were interesting to animate. I wish I could do flips myself XD
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