Horse Rider Motion guides

[Creative Mechanism]

South East Animation

Again, thank you for all of your help so far.

Would a shadow be helpful or distracting?

[SmokemJags]

The current chocobone movement is just a single frame, I can't imagine why it wouldn't be used if a new one was made. Oh wait, nevermind.

I think a shadow isn't really necessary. They're generally easy to make from my experience, though for something more complicated like this it might be a different story.

[Creative Mechanism]

Smokeemjags: I meant I'd make an animation guide. Let me know if you'd use it.

[Noyga]

On the North and South animation, the front view makes it quite hard to tell it is actually an horse...
Maybe a little angle from North-South axis (say +5° or +10° for North and -5° or -10° for South) would make the unit more recognisable ?

[Creative Mechanism]

I'm not sure that will do too much good. Keep in mind that the spriters will paint the horse's face over the yellow blob in my animation. The last images I posted were at 30 degrees. Here I will post 35 40 and 45 degrees.

What do you think, does it make a difference?

[SmokemJags]

I meant I'd make an animation guide. Let me know if you'd use it.

Nah I'm more of a death animator, not big on movement animations.

And really, Just call me Jags.