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theodrixx
#307100
1 year ago
twhinoceros
Anonymous
#307101
1 year ago
She's... Kinda long O_O
cromwell15
#307110
1 year ago
Pointy nose but good :)
Anonymous
#307124
1 year ago
She's missing a leg
Dirt
#307125
1 year ago
blankflank
Anonymous
#307130
1 year ago
Three-legged freak!
Ran_TH
#307148
1 year ago
Hello, this is my creation and upload =) Been figuring out to make an account.

Yeah she's unfinished yet, thanks for all the comments lol. Here I'm trying to make a pony shorts animation with resembling official style.
fluffywuffy
#307156
1 year ago
^I knew it was fake. they don't really use adobe flash to make this.

still, can't wait to see it completed.
theodrixx
#307159
1 year ago
^ they do use flash.
Ran_TH
#307165
1 year ago
Yeah, from conversations with FiM animators I've read on 4chan they mostly use Flash for the show. Which is amazing for a flash animation IMO.
theodrixx
#307172
1 year ago
^ I wouldn't say that Flash is necessarily more limited than hand-drawn animation. It's easier, which makes it more accessible, which means that more people with no animation experience access it. Most Flash animations on the internet are made by people like that, so I think it gets a bad rap.

It's a tool like any other, and professionals know how to make best use of it.
Ran_TH
#307191
1 year ago
You got the point :) Even MS Paint in a hand of professionals can make a beautifully artistic painting.
Mushi
#307270
1 year ago
I cant understand thi "flash" thing
dudemang
#307430
1 year ago
I've been considering doing something like that with a combination of Synfig and Inkscape.

Also, the animators apparently only use Flash 8. Has Flash not really advanced that much from version 8?
Lancer
#307510
1 year ago
I took one online college class in Adobe Flash CS5. It was a painful experience, every new version of Flash breaks something, and Adobe's textbooks are not well written. Anyone who can do anything worth viewing in Flash has my admiration...
Anonymous
#307530
1 year ago
This looks great so far. Good luck Ran_TH!
Anonymous
#307618
1 year ago
From what I remember seeing in an interview with one of the animators, they are using Macromedia Flash 8, which was released in 2005 (along with some custom plug-ins). What they've been able to do with it, has been pretty amazing!
WizardWannabe
#307709
1 year ago
How have you been animating the legs? I've found it difficult. Numerous times I've wanted to just frame-by-frame it, but then Flash will have beaten me! Motion tweening doesn't look right, but shape tweening is frustrating as hell, even with shape hints.
Anonymous
#308570
1 year ago
Shape tween shouldn't be used for anything ever, ever :\

The legs are frame by framed, when ever they change angle. In fact, most movement in the show isn't tweened. They're just solid graphics they puppet around, and change whenever they need to. Which is why the hair just sort of bounces around, but has to be redrawn whenever it actually changes shape more than a stretch or skew.
Ran_TH
#308971
1 year ago
Shape tween is useful if you know how to use it :)

Actually I succeeded in animating the front legs by shape tween, well still not perfect but resembles enough. Others are animated by rotating and skewing a bit, for ex. the flank, mane, hair, and tail.
I doubt if they did all the animation frame-by-frame, because it will be very time consuming for simple movement that can be done quickly with tween.
Ran_TH
#308999
1 year ago
But yeah that's just for their walking cycle in side view. Doing other pose probably going to be more complex, which is frustrating if you do it all alone lol.
WizardWannabe
#309554
1 year ago
@Anon#308570: Yeah, frame-by-frame does look better, especially if you actually went to college for it and know what you're doing, but the whole point of using Flash is for its tweening tools, other wise they'd just do it traditionally.
Looking at a wireframe gif of a walkcycle looks like tweening to me. Besides, I asked the guy who uploads those behind the scenes videos, and he confirmed they use tweens, as well as frame-by-frame. Seems like they use tweens whenever they can to speed things up.

@Ran_TH: Yeah, I'm just trying to do a walk cycle but the front legs are beating me. Motion tweening stuff is easier, but shape tweening the legs just spazzes out all the time. I imagine that in other situations or angles they have to create multiple parts of the legs and move them in sync, which I think would be motion tweened most of the time.
I'd love to see your final version of this, make sure to upload it here or even equestria daily.