@Akki Thanks! Ah, someone else mentioned Botanicula with one of the earlier pics. Just looked it up and it was the Samorost people - loved that so much!

@tmcfarlane Thank you! This is currently one of the many unanswered questions, but I am a BIG fan of a HONK.

Currently working on populating the world of the Tooters. Was going to do sheep, but they went a bit - erm - not quite sheepy.

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@CuriousMagpie Thank you!

@realtegan Aww, I can get that

@aroundthehills Oops, sorry! It's maybe all stompy bluster and is actually a wee sweetie-pie.

(for the record - as reading back I sound a bit petulant - still liking the new animation software, appreciate the work that's gone into it & understand it's still in development. Will be working with My Lovely Techie to do useful feedback or patches... but I can be an awful grump when things go wrong )

@leguinian_utopia Thank you

This was not going to be this. Yesterday I was just going to do a little test with a walk cycle, but some of my usual tricks were bringing out bugs, & I got very cross & shut it all down in a strop. Opened it back up in a slightly better frame of mind this evening & made it into a THING.

I know you can't see the Tooters in this one, but that's because they're hiding. Very wise, the Tooters...

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@Dolphinchaz It's a beauty isn't it?

At the moment I'm partly just reminding myself that one day the world will brighten again. It has been a dreich couple of months.

@antoinnesterk Magnificent!

#silentSunday #Scotland

@stooryduster Cool! I am going to write up a couple of top tips for people coming from Flash, as I would have come unstuck quite quickly without someone to explain a couple of things to me, but it seems to have sunk in to my old brain fairly well after the initial confusion.

@FallsMom Thank you!

@gbargoud @shaknais Yeah, it looked pretty good, but wasn't quite right for me as it's raster rather than vector animation

@Whimsy Aww, thanks, you are too kind

@shaknais Ah, this was a significant factor for me too (I did a thread about it all yesterday if it's of interest https://things.uk/@eclectech/116024929074907629).

The vector tweening is properly nice, and that seems really rare these days.

@blogdiva It's great isn't it?! Wholesome in all the right ways.

@shaknais Friction Graphics. I am striving to go open source with my animation.

Evening! (or morning! or afternoon!) I hope you've had a lovely Saturday.

My day has been spent working out how to draw & animate the Tooters in the new software. It has been quite enjoyable, occasionally frustrating, but mainly sloooooooooow

They will very likely to change as I play around more, but for now, The Tooter Moves. I mean... not a LOT, but the potential is there.

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