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SandStorm2016 [2017-08-21 20:33:40 +0000 UTC]
It looks great! Way better than my cat drawings...
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PapayaGirlOfDeath [2014-06-30 14:11:04 +0000 UTC]
This was epic.
And, Leopardstar, if you're so thin, then eat you old fart. >.>
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Scourge-of-riverclan [2013-10-09 22:48:03 +0000 UTC]
i have a fanfiction about my fancharacter,ashes when she tries to take over riverclan
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NatameSecrea In reply to funlakota [2010-04-06 18:29:40 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! There is more I wanted to do with Leopardstar, but since we're doing an animation I didn't want to make her too complicated to color over and over again. XD
Thanks for those! I have looked at them before, I bet it was a lot of work to color all those cats. :0 It will definitely help me with ideas. There are only so many ways to color a gray tabby cat to make them look different lol.
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funlakota In reply to NatameSecrea [2010-04-06 21:27:44 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, you need to keep it simple for animation. And it can be hard to do that with spotted characters. I remeber reading that the animators for Disney's Tarzan basically did 3 individual cells (or something along those lines) for the leopard character every time: 1 for the body, 1 for the spots, and 1 for the details (whiskers, etc.). They then overlayed them for the complete picture. ^^ It sounds like those layers in Photoshop.
Yes, it got a bit hard after a while when I used up designs. The hardest ones to do were the solid coloured cats. Like you said, there's only so many ways to do them without repeating the same thing (except in families which I used as a loophole). It was hard thinking up ways to make Beechfur, Otterheart, and Mudfur look unrelated because all of them are brown cats!!
The tabbies were the easier because you can give them different designs as well as slightly different colours. But I cheated with most of them. I just used Crookedstar's and Oakheart's pattern for many of them. It worked because Silverstream, Feathertail, and possibly Mintfur, Graymist, and Mallownose are directly related to those cats anyways. So they have some family traits!! I might go back someday though to add unique features to each of them... 'cause I've gotten better doing tabbies since I did them.
It was fun, but I have NO plans to do the other clans. Mainly because I think I used up most of my ideas with Riverclan. ^^
Hopefully those designs will help you or inspire you... or something.
(Have you considered using the other tabby patterns for this project? That will definitely make them look different, but the classic pattern might be hard to animate. )
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Autumpool [2010-04-06 16:56:10 +0000 UTC]
Great job! I didn't know you were on the team too!
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