Once again ToonTitan, you really helped me! Thank you so much! ^_^ I devoted so much time to learning both Illustrator and Flash, that I hadn't given much practice to the actual animation software! Silly me!

I followed your instructions, and I resolved the layering issues, and managed to figure out most of my problems with the masks. Honestly, I think the small a mount of clipping I'm getting in the linked animation (specifically angle 315)is fixed with some adjustments in the run-time composer, but at first I thought I had messed up again (I'm still not sure).

It would be nicer if the rabbit ears could be animated.

Building on everything I learned so far, I rigged this male template puppet with surprisingly fewer problems.

I'm a little perplexed by the poke-though with the upper thigh and waist on every angle. I tried to fix it both in the character composer (with the layering and masks), and the run-time composer.



I guess I'll figure it out eventually. :/

I Built my two dummy puppets just to prove to myself that I could transfer what I had into an animation (even if it is only something as simple as a walk-cycle. It was a fun and educational experiment! But those dummies were incomplete; I still need to draw eye, mouth, and hand shapes for them, so I'm going back to basics.

I just completed the first draft of line work for all 11 of the hand shapes.



I had to redraw my hand assets because much of the original art I had wasn't really intended for the simplified art-style I'm currently using. These hands are much more "cartoony."

EDIT
Oh yeah, if you're curious, this is my original hand art.

Awesome! I like your creativity. Hope you will share a video version soon. Good luck.

Very nice work!

FANTASTIC WORK!!!

After building those hand assets, I wanted to try building a puppet with more "realistic" proportions.  I am using my new hands in this dummy. 

What do you think?  Should I detail it?

ABSOLUTELY! And then add these characters to the Marketplace for us to buy and use!

Rick Owens

I modified my existing male dummy template, and I made a dwarf. I had a bit of trouble making a long-beard dwarf, so he has a neatly trimmed short beard.



Pretty cool, eh?

very nice! I love it.


Ibis Fernandez   |   (available for hire)
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