"Beware the Well of Shade, for the shadows run deep through its endless walls and twisting caverns"
I've been messing around with this rig on and off for awhile, but I finally finished this little side project making a short scene in the style of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
I've never been quite happy with how Starswirl the Bearded looked in the show when he finally appeared but, last year I happened upon a really cool fan design of Starswirl by the user Orin311 that I fell in love with. I decided to make a one view puppet rig this year directly based off their vector art as a surprise, complete with show style lip sync and a full walk cycle. One thing led to another in adding a background, a few illustrator texture brushes, multiple sound effects, re-purposing some old fire animation of mine and suddenly it became a whole completed scene. With such a cool wizard design, the choice for using Gandalf's voice to test the rig with was a no brainier. The background is based on the Well of Shade location in the Season 7 finale of MLP.
I had a lot of fun making this and it was great practice for some future personal animation projects I wanna start next year!
Credits for the character design and sound effects listed below
Starswirl fan design by Orin331
Lord of the Rings audio
fire audio
rocks and pebble audio
magic effect audio
horse walking audio
It's late, and your phone buzzes, you ignore it and go back to sleep but then it happens again– and again. Over and over, until a tone plays–your voicemail tone. You realize upon picking up your phone that it was Jake, your best friend of 4 years, who was calling you at this ungodly hour.
You press play, and Jake's moans fill your ear. He's desperate, horny, begging for you. Wow thats new...
The sudden realization of his once-secret admiration for you was shocking. Jake– your Jake– your best friend– was now moaning your name, calling you mommy. It was unsettling to be honest, but you couldn't stop listening, something inside of you awakening at the sound of the longing in his voice ever so strong.
"Please pick up, I wanna be a good boy for you..."
here's a song i made about going backwards and also going forwards
songs used under the cut
Back N Forth
Aaliyah - Back & Forth
Huey Lewis And The News - Power Of Love
Cameo - Back and Forth
Devo - Whip It
Depeche Mode - Going Backwards
Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
Aqua - If I Could Turn Back Time
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
David Guetta - Back and Forth
Brockhampton - All That
Ludacris - Move Bitch
The Proclaimers - 1000 Miles
Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It
Dora the Explorer - Travel Song
Hoobastank - Moving Forward