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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3041787, member: 56859"]Too long but I had a blast and learned a lot. I started working on it Friday night. It's been through several iterations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Animating the horse was of course the hardest part but it was made easier by using the famous <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_race_horse_gallop.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_race_horse_gallop.jpg" rel="nofollow">Muybridge high speed photography study of a galloping horse</a>. I used 12 of the 15 images in the cycle (pooped out and it looked smooth enough without the three omissions). I cut the coin horse into parts and reassembled them over each of the Muybridge images. Each horse pose was saved as a Photoshop file, later imported into the background composite.</p><p><br /></p><p>The background is one long image, constructed so that the left side of the last frame matches the right side of the first frame. I placed flowers throughout and had to make them visible/invisible as the movement progressed. To cut the frames, I made semi-transparent placeholder layers for each frame and each placeholder had a dot in the same location. The dot was used to center the horse. It was tedious in the extreme with a ridiculous number of steps and sequences which had to be executed over and over and over. After a while it became a good exercise to help with my memory, which seems to be slipping with age.</p><p><br /></p><p>First draft, a 4 frame sequence which was out of order because I had flipped the Muybridge composite and forgot to renumber the images!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]759377[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next draft, which made me downright dizzy because of the high rate of speed of the clouds and background. I also didn't like how some of the flowers exited close to the legs.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]759378[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There was another version or two until I settled on a stationary background. This morning I made great headway towards a differentially moving background (even had to use math, gasp!) but after the test sequence of 4 frames realized the problem: the pyramids wouldn't cycle back to the starting position so the continuous loop would be disrupted. Then I decided to make the hills, pyramids, and clouds stationary which was a good compromise. That's the final draft.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also considered parching the foreground landscape in front of the horse to further emphasize the regenerative nature of Agathodaemon on a horse, and I considered having corn or wheat instead of flowers which would have been more appropriate but I like the colorful flowers. I probably spent roughly 25 hours on the project but it was very fun but eventually I had to stop tweaking it. Did some home repair work too so it has been a very productive weekend <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3041787, member: 56859"]Too long but I had a blast and learned a lot. I started working on it Friday night. It's been through several iterations. Animating the horse was of course the hardest part but it was made easier by using the famous [URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_race_horse_gallop.jpg']Muybridge high speed photography study of a galloping horse[/URL]. I used 12 of the 15 images in the cycle (pooped out and it looked smooth enough without the three omissions). I cut the coin horse into parts and reassembled them over each of the Muybridge images. Each horse pose was saved as a Photoshop file, later imported into the background composite. The background is one long image, constructed so that the left side of the last frame matches the right side of the first frame. I placed flowers throughout and had to make them visible/invisible as the movement progressed. To cut the frames, I made semi-transparent placeholder layers for each frame and each placeholder had a dot in the same location. The dot was used to center the horse. It was tedious in the extreme with a ridiculous number of steps and sequences which had to be executed over and over and over. After a while it became a good exercise to help with my memory, which seems to be slipping with age. First draft, a 4 frame sequence which was out of order because I had flipped the Muybridge composite and forgot to renumber the images! [ATTACH=full]759377[/ATTACH] Next draft, which made me downright dizzy because of the high rate of speed of the clouds and background. I also didn't like how some of the flowers exited close to the legs. [ATTACH=full]759378[/ATTACH] There was another version or two until I settled on a stationary background. This morning I made great headway towards a differentially moving background (even had to use math, gasp!) but after the test sequence of 4 frames realized the problem: the pyramids wouldn't cycle back to the starting position so the continuous loop would be disrupted. Then I decided to make the hills, pyramids, and clouds stationary which was a good compromise. That's the final draft. I also considered parching the foreground landscape in front of the horse to further emphasize the regenerative nature of Agathodaemon on a horse, and I considered having corn or wheat instead of flowers which would have been more appropriate but I like the colorful flowers. I probably spent roughly 25 hours on the project but it was very fun but eventually I had to stop tweaking it. Did some home repair work too so it has been a very productive weekend :).[/QUOTE]
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