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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Lego horse leg movement.]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I did a video with a horse. I shot one pic with it on studs and one in-between studs.

Link to video

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5z8lPoaFQ[/url]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Galactic Films]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[canaantmay@gmail.com]]></email>
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			<updated>2013-09-07T13:31:18Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Lego horse leg movement.]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[What jay wrote to me just incase anyone else wants to know how to do this......

It's true that I did animate a LEGO horse's legs once using After Effects. The short story is that it isn't easy and that the method I used is extremely limited - it only works directly side-on and under basic lighting conditions.
What I did was to take a still of the horse and divide it up into overlapping layers - the neck & head, tail, saddle, torso, upper front leg, lower front leg, upper back leg, lower back leg and then duplicates of the legs for the far side of the horse. Then in After Effects I set all layers to pivot at the proper point and the parent/child relationships (lower leg is a child of upper leg which is a child of the torso, for example) to essentially build a 2D puppet in AE. That was in AE 6.5, the newer versions have a puppet tool that might work even better.
The real trick is getting these new moving parts to move without revealing that they are stills - highlights don't move and by default they don't cast shifting shadows as they move. I used a lot of drop shadows and masking to simulate these effects.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[TheBlakkflayme]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-07T11:29:40Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Lego horse leg movement.]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Mighty Wanderer]Forum member jay did a video with AE-animated horse legs awhile back, you should ask him about it.[/quote]

Thanks]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[TheBlakkflayme]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-02-19T00:23:06Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Lego horse leg movement.]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Forum member jay did a video with AE-animated horse legs awhile back, you should ask him about it.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Mighty Wanderer]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[nebulaewanderer@yahoo.com]]></email>
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			<updated>2013-02-18T22:13:02Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Lego horse leg movement.]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Dear Everyone,
      I'm working on a Lego Ranger movie, and when I animate the horse I don't want the horse to just slide, I want to make the horse's legs to move back and forth. If you know how to do this in Adobe After Effects please give me a detailed explanation or video. Thanks.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[TheBlakkflayme]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-02-18T21:01:59Z</updated>
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