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Published: 2017-04-26 07:03:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 18026; Favourites: 621; Downloads: 183
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Wanted an animated AJ? You have an animated AJ.4-5 hours spent on the animation. Most of that time was spent on very minor details... :V
I'll probably change my approach to animated hooves and legs like this where I just used forward kinematics instead of inverse kinematics. It'll fix some of the weird jittery-ness it has despite my efforts to suppress it.
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I don't see any jittery ness and would need you to point it out. Don't have too I just don't see it.
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I'm not even a pony-boy anymore,
but I can't deny this is adorable!
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Something I'd recommend for when Rara does the Piano bits: try a remodel/rig of the forelegs as "Anthro" shoulders. {That is, "Pinkie wants a HUG!" versus "AJ needs support to buck apples!"}
It's one of the things that bothers me with the SFM ponies, seeing the "bump" of where the Quadrupedal forelimbs come out of the model...
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(My mistake, posted in the wrong place.)
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Hmmm... Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure if I understand what you're recommending.
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(My bad; I realized you wouldn't necessarily get the notification where I posted it before.)
Okay, in FIM, a pony's rib cage seems to have two positions for the "shoulders": If the less than is the pony's back, the o is their rib cage and equals is their forelegs:
the "Pinkie needs a hug " position puts the forelegs perpendicular, splayed out like a teddy bear: -0-
On a real horse, their ribcage is a tall oval from the front, and their front legs are locked to straight down to the ground: in fact, their shoulders and biceps are locked tight against the rib cage and what we can see move separate from the torso is an arm from the elbow down: the "knee" in front is the wrist, and from there down to the hoof is the middle finger.
A human, if put in a similar position to the horse, has a *wide* oval for the ribcage, and much more of the forelimb is free to move, but to do so, it sticks out to the sides.
The FIM ponies have a perfectly round rib cage, and, as two dimensional drawings, can cheat their internal anatomy for effect.
The SFM ponies, however, are locked into quadrupedal mode, and without a different rig/model for "Pinkie Needs a hug" there's a bump on the chest of the model where the "biceps" are locked against the ribs and they're moving the legs' joints in a manner they shouldn't. SFM Hug example: Note the harsh shadow on pinkie's chest.
It's just a better effect, if you have a shot that needs it, to have a model designed for the wide, splayed hug, than try to make your "normal" model struggle to fit. Much like in Frozen; there's a scene where Elsa has a glove removed: for faster rendering, the first model had no skin for Elsa's hand, just a rig for the glove, and as the animation went on, they added the skin portion at the frame where the glove came off.
In the end, it all comes down to what you're willing to put up with for a fan work. Don't get me wrong, what you have so far is superb... it's just a limitation of the SFM rigs that irks me, and I thought I might let you be aware of a potential problem that could turn "AWESOME!" into "meh" from nitpicky fans.
But what do I know, I'm just some jerk on the internet.
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nice animation and shader ^^ and btw how did you do to get the render time and such over the render ?
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I love how much work you're putting into these models! Such dedication.
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Keep up the good work bro! These models are amazing! Way better than the normal ones that's for sure
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I think her facial expression looks much better here than in the actual episode.
Also, your models look a lot better than what we usual see - I don't know whether it comes more from the eyes or if it just has different shapes, but it looks more expressive and more fully animated.
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Incredible.
Dunno how you do it, but your work always impresses me.
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