Generic Character Puppets for Moonrise Animation by HydrusBeta, 2016-01-20T05:30:07Z

I promised updates to Moonrise here, so I guess I should post something every now and then, huh?

There are many background characters in Moonrise, so a fair bit of work has been devoted to the problem of generating a multitude of characters that don't look too obviously repeated. Care was taken to make the pony puppets versatile and streamlined so I could reuse parts and animate faster. For example, many of the mane styles were designed to easily accomodate a horn or go hornless, and all puppets have been set up so that their colors — including gradients — can be easily changed in a few clicks without having to go into each symbol.

Here's a showcase of the background character puppets that have been developed so far.