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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/369297/#p369297</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Good suggestions everyone! My current idea has changed slightly (and it will probably stay as it is now) so I won't actually be using a main character with short legs (although, thinking about it, there may be some more minor characters who do, so it may be worth trying out some of these techniques). I think this will hopefully also be useful for others with the same question, and in fact, it might be a nice basis for an animation challenge ;)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Dragon Brick Studios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The hopping idea I personally like the most. I tried other methods early on when I started animating, but when I did hopping, I thought it looked much better especially if the character leans in and out like in this animation this looked good in my opinion for running: 
[url]https://youtu.be/yhL4l_vzj9I?t=23[/url]
Of course, this is not a short-leg character, but the concept is the same.
Because the main character in the Barney bunny series is a child, there are plenty of walk sequences to look at like this one: [url]https://youtu.be/arUPVeT9MVU?t=28[/url]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Raptor Studios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=twickabrick]The second one might mainly work because it kinda looks like his dad is just dragging him along.[/quote]

The child will mostly be on his own but it would definitely be a viable option for another time, thanks :)

[quote=jahnocli]Just buy the damn legs from Brick Fortress/ They're pretty cheap, and the shipping isn't THAT expensive. I live in the UK too, I bought some, and I'm a tightwad... Looks a whole lot better than hopping.[/quote]

I was hesitant because I had no experience whatsoever with them in terms of reviews by people/shipping fees for those living outside the US etc. I'll look into it more :)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Dragon Brick Studios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/369257/#p369257</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just buy the damn legs from [url=http://www.brickfortress.com]Brick Fortress[/url]/ They're pretty cheap, and the shipping isn't THAT expensive. I live in the UK too, I bought some, and I'm a tightwad... Looks a whole lot better than hopping.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (jahnocli)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/369250/#p369250</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My brother and I used [url=https://youtu.be/u9_XKzuQF94?t=36s]this technique[/url] for such a situation a while back, but later we used [url=https://youtu.be/fgO1UzS0BfY?t=3m47s]this one[/url]. The second one might mainly work because it kinda looks like his dad is just dragging him along.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (twickabrick)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/369239/#p369239</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the replies so far, they are ideas I had thought of but weren't sure how good they would look. However, seeing both of your examples, either of your techniques could perhaps work very well with what I was intending! I would still like to hear from lots of other people though, so please do share any other methods!]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Dragon Brick Studios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I mainly do hopping.  I only animated two children with short legs so far.  Fortunately, the first kid was supposed to be super-hyper, so it worked extremely well; she was a stud-hopper even when standing in place to talk!

Also, you can try gliding over the studs like a ghost.  I do this in this video.  Watch between 11:08 and 11:23.
[url]https://vimeo.com/holdingourown/hoo3[/url]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (HoldingOurOwn)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've only animated short legs as a test so far, but the way I tried to do it was to have the minifig sort of hop over the studs with its arms swaying like in a normal walk cycle. I think it looks alright. [url]https://youtu.be/9-Syfq2_d0Y?t=8s[/url]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (AnimatorUnknown)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Animating minifigures with small legs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So for my current BRAWL entry idea, my brickfilm revolves around a small kid, and at the beginning and end he will be doing a fair bit of running (with a little bit of walking throughout). So my question is how does everybody else animate short legs? I know there are the custom ones (although as far as I know they are only sold at a fairly high quality by Brick Fortress, and I'm pretty sure he's based in America, which is a problem for me being based in Britain due to shipping fees etc.) but I was also curious how other people do it.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Dragon Brick Studios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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