Your Horse Here - Animated Trot (closed)

sold to Moeso

Wootwoot another animation. This time, I went ahead and animated the trot to fit a song's rhythm - it was Sultans of Swing first, and it had quite the amazing drive xD but then the background happened and now everything looks chaotic and I'm not sure anymore if I can keep that rhythm... anyway, I slowed it down a bit, and now it fits the rhythm of the Finale of the Lone Ranger Soundtrack (which is a song I've ALWAYS wanted to animate a trot for, so that's cool too)
Probably it'll end up a lot slower, but that depends on what the buyer of this animation wants to have. See below

The movement itself is something I really like O: it worked nicely... at least the front legs did.
I think I'll need to change the rider a bit, but so far it's okay. That's easier to do with the lining xD
The background gave me a hard time, I think that's visible... I don't want to count how many layers I needed to get the thing right. Also, how many hours of work :'D just the background... am I crazy? 

ANYWAY - I think I'm going to sell this as an YHH again, the procedure is below (: sorry for the prices, but these are ridiculously time-consuming
thanks for watching!
Will continue this in JM's, so stay tuned if you want to keep me some company! <3

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Reply to my comment to bid for this baby.
Starting bid: 2500 (or, like, 25 USD - or the respective amount of €) minimum increase 100  (1 USD)
Autobuy: 7000 (it's so high on purpose, to encourage bidding)
it's open until Friday, 10th July, 22:00 MEZ, or until the highest bidder gets no response anymore. (unless nobody chooses the AB)

What you will get: A refined/lined, flat coloured animation of a horse of your choice, with a framerate of ~20 fps and 1000x665 px - look at these for style comparison: [link] [link]
I do spotted horses, but only to a certain extent. Please don't ask me to draw a Zazenach, if you understand what I mean. xD the colour would wobble around on the horse and simply not look good. But if the colour is rather complicated, I might want to simplify it a bit to be able to animate it ^^
The mane can be either braided or open, Long-ish or short.

As for the rider... it can either be a rider of yours, OR your horse gets a lesson in Dressage by one of my characters - either Daniel or Andrew - and it takes place on Waving Tree Stud. (which the background already resembles.)
If you want to have your own human character drawn, the non-moving background of course can be replaced with something of your choice (: Something that fits your own stable or country or whatever. The moving background sadly can't be changed... I'd have to change 200 layers for that? xDDD

Also, the speed. It was intended to be rather fast, or at least fast enough to fit the song's rhythm... but with the background, it might look a little too fast. I'd send you three different rhythms once it's finished, so you can choose which one you like best. Maybe you have an ex-trotter? Or a super lazy horse? The speed can be adjusted. Sounds good? xD

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Art (c) by me
I did look at some Dressage stock photos to get the rider's leg somewhat right. The movement was done without a reference, though.  
16 Frames, Photoshop CS5
Please don't copy, edit, redistribute.. this isn't free to use. thanks!