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Input: Five Hours.

Output: 3-4 seconds of animation.

Maybe that's why animation isn't popular X_X

Really pleased which how this turned out in comparison to my other posted animation. Scarified overall animation time and made heavy use of easing to gain a more realistic body motion.

** FLASH JARGON ANALYSIS BELOW **

The dynamic orientation of the head was definitely the big hurdle to cross. I basically took my basic head frame and re-drew another one on top of it. Slight shape tween hiccup at the first head motion (look at the chin), but it's hardly noticeable.

Missing some lines at the left elbow joint; this is due to me erasing lines at the static pose for aesthetic reasons. You can see now that it's come back to nip me in the butt in animation when the arm changes its positioning.

Kudos to EmperorBassexe to pointing out the ponytail mis-orientation on the sketch. Found a good way to handle re-orientation by chopping the motion tween in half and mirror the layer at that point, otherwise the ponytail would of rotated in an extremely unrealistic 2-D fashion.

I did cheat a bit in not re-positioning the layer order of the face and ears; as the head turns left, for example, the right ear's layer should be placed in front of the face layer. The hair layer covers this, so I decided to leave the layer order as is since you won't see it anyway.

Did some lagging frame tactics to emphasize hair / quiver motion. Looks okay; hopefully it'll improve a bit with more practice.

** FLASH JARGON ANALYSIS END **

Overall it is still a fairly 'static' animation; the animation from pose 1 (crouching) to pose 2 (sitting) will take a bit more effort, but the style is definitely turning out to what I was aiming for!

Description
Input: Five Hours.

Output: 3-4 seconds of animation.

Maybe that's why animation isn't popular X_X

Really pleased which how this turned out in comparison to my other posted animation. Scarified overall animation time and made heavy use of easing to gain a more realistic body motion.

** FLASH JARGON ANALYSIS BELOW **

The dynamic orientation of the head was definitely the big hurdle to cross. I basically took my basic head frame and re-drew another one on top of it. Slight shape tween hiccup at the first head motion (look at the chin), but it's hardly noticeable.

Missing some lines at the left elbow joint; this is due to me erasing lines at the static pose for aesthetic reasons. You can see now that it's come back to nip me in the butt in animation when the arm changes its positioning.

Kudos to EmperorBassexe to pointing out the ponytail mis-orientation on the sketch. Found a good way to handle re-orientation by chopping the motion tween in half and mirror the layer at that point, otherwise the ponytail would of rotated in an extremely unrealistic 2-D fashion.

I did cheat a bit in not re-positioning the layer order of the face and ears; as the head turns left, for example, the right ear's layer should be placed in front of the face layer. The hair layer covers this, so I decided to leave the layer order as is since you won't see it anyway.

Did some lagging frame tactics to emphasize hair / quiver motion. Looks okay; hopefully it'll improve a bit with more practice.

** FLASH JARGON ANALYSIS END **

Overall it is still a fairly 'static' animation; the animation from pose 1 (crouching) to pose 2 (sitting) will take a bit more effort, but the style is definitely turning out to what I was aiming for!