I've done a bit on a horse jumping animation, producing a sequence that would slot seamlessly into the canter sequence I've posted in Freestuff. Not perfect yet, he's a bit lazy with the hind legs! The horse changes leading leg over the jump, so I've then made a canter sequence on the other lead to match (you can spot where it then switches back to the original sequence in this animation, if you look hard enough, I haven't yet done a change of lead pose sequence).

I wondered, then, how much interest would there be in a set of animated poses that could blend into one another like this (i.e. pace transitions such as whalt/walk, walk/trot, trot/canter on both leading legs, canter/gallop, walk/canter, corresponding downward transitions, the matching paces, lead changes at canter and so on). It could be expanded pretty much indefinately (paces and transitions done on the curve that also match up, for example). Would lots of people find it useful? Or is it too specialist?

Thank you to anyone with an opinion!

What a great idea! To be able to blend motions that way through Walk Designer. Almost like game character animation sequences!

Very interesting indeed! Horse needs to plant its front hooves firmly before jump, and as you say, pull up rear legs more quickly and higher. Also rear legs should impact fairly soon after front on landing. :] Fish

I would definitely like to see more of this. I was going to work on some run, stops, spins and rollbacks... I'm not much into the jumping end of things, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't use them. BTW I loaded up your lope animation... nice job... and put it against the one I was working on way back when.... They look pretty good side by side. I haven't worked on any of them since I've been busy making clothes. This set of clothing is the last set I'm going to do for a while and I'm going to tackle the horse, saddle and bridle and do some more animations for both horse and rider. I'm getting real tired of working on clothes... Ed

"I'm going to tackle the horse" Har har! :o) :] Fish

I'm very interested in ALL your horse animations and gear. I use them not just for animation purposes (animation I am interested in but VERY novice at), but also click through the frames for single shot posing purposes. They truly lead to a sense of motion in a 2D scene. Thank you for your kind efforts and wonderful freebies, Hai Gan. Lhiannan

The horse animations you made are very good. I'm not sure if I will ever use them, but it is sure nice to know they are there if I do ever need them.

Nice work indeed....I really must look into how to get animations working :)

I would be very interested.

I wondered, then, how much interest would there .... Seriously? Submit them to the Marketplace, stick a price tag on them, perhaps include some matching rider animations. I'll buy.

I second what Little Dragon said!

Very interested!

And next, with rider animations to go with it, wow!

Yes HaiGan! I am very interested indeed. About to start long horse sequences. Your stuff is awesome!

I'm really interested too, and I'd buy them in a shot if you put them in the MP :) Thank you so much for all your great stuff! Happy New Year, Alla

I'd be interested in just still poses of the frames. I'm starting 2 long projects with many horses in motion, so I'm going to need multiple variants of walking poses and such so the beasts aren't clones Poses for the heavy horse and weebeastiehorsie would also be great (though the horsie takes the heavyhorses poses seamlessly) I have a party of adventurers on horseback, an entire wagon caravan, medeival streetscenes and at least 4 epic battle sequences to have horses in. I have a good variaty of rearing and bucking, but not so good on the leaping, charging and attacking things I also need that I haven't enough of or can't find: packs, travois, carriage tack, wagon tack, saddlepad (arabian style), arabian style saddle, a saddle that can go on a pegasus and not impact the wings, motion poses for the camel, motion poses for the moose, a levade pose to make into a statue, and two horses play-fighting (one being significantly larger) oh and "human falling off the horse" poses, since I have a "learning to ride" sequence as well. and while I'm at it I want to thank all you people who've made stuff for the horse already ... you've done great work :) Lyrra

Lyrra, there's a levade (static pose) included in the Conversano tack add-on set in my Freestuff, and a courbette as well. There's also a set of static standing trotting and jumping poses, and Daio's posted a bunch of poses in Freestuff too, along with some textures.

I haven't finished the travois or the Arabian tack yet, but I'm working on them from time to time. No idea how you'd fit a saddle on a Pegasus. I guess it would depend whether the ride is supposed to sit with hos or her legs over the front of the wings or tucked in behind. The Pegasus legend only mentions a bridle, not a saddle- the Greeks weren't into saddles, they generally rode bareback.

The description for the Heavy Horse says that it takes Poser horse poses. I haven't got it so I can't try that out, but it's probably worth a shot.

To change the subject, I've now completed the flying changes to change between the two canter lead loops (although it's not one you'd see in the dressage arena). I'll probably have to adjust the end points in the loop- at the moment, the loop doesn't allow a change of lead every stride because the change overlaps the end of one loop and the start of the next one. I'll wrap 'em up and stick them in with the freebie canter animation as they are, though- more when I've done that. :)