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FarstriderGryphonRider

"Another air unit can't hurt"

This model uses a mix of home made animations for the rider, and the gryphon parts to keep the beast looking natural. The only old animation remaining are the Portrait, and Spell Throw.

This model counts with:

Inner portrait.
Stand Channel. To use spells with "channel" tags.
Spell.
Spell Throw. To use Net, or Snare.

Update
27/01/16
Re-worked Attack animation, changed the arm position in Stand Channel, and added more motions in stand, stand 2, animations. Hopefully it's less robotic now.
4/03/16

Updated in Portrait animations.
Updated Attack animations.

Update
30/03/2016
Update model Portrait, now looks like it has an inner mouth or something like that.

Keywords:
Air, Gryphon, Spear, Thrower, Farstrider
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FarstriderGryphonRider (Model)

Reviews
04:51, 8th Feb 2016 MiniMage: It's interesting. Work on its attack animation and on its portrait animations. 13:47, 28th Mar 2016 HappyCockroach: A marvelous idea, a javelin guy on a Gryphon. The animation edits are pretty well-executed. The...

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04:51, 8th Feb 2016
MiniMage: It's interesting. Work on its attack animation and on its portrait animations.

13:47, 28th Mar 2016
HappyCockroach:
A marvelous idea, a javelin guy on a Gryphon. The animation edits are pretty well-executed. The only issue I see is that the portrait still talks with his mouth shut, as in the previous version, and that's weird. It would be nice if you fixed that.
But it's absolutely approvable at the moment. Keep up! :)
 
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That's actually well made.
The animation placing is very nice.
Only suggestion would be to make the rider less rock-like in stand animation.
 
I would advice you to look into the priest portrait. Look at the how the mouth is constructed and try and emulate that by adding more vertices. So that we see teeth and redness indicating an inside of his mouth.
Himperion, do follow these advices if you have the time. The biggest con at the moment is the portrait. I might raise the rating if you do.
 
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Himperion, do follow these advices if you have the time. The biggest con at the moment is the portrait. I might raise the rating if you do.

To five stars? Whoa, that's.. Oh well.

I think that at the moment the rider kinda shovels his spear into the gryhpon instead of throwing it.

His portrait talk aniamtion looks like he's chewing on his lip atm.

I don't want to agree with MiniMage, but his comment is on point.
 
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Working on the head, the mouth has a "pouch" were is supposed to be textured like the inner part of the mouth.

MC's Demon Hunter has the same mouth but using Black32.blp, going to try finding a pinkish texture and upload an updated version, next step repeat with the other Farstrider model.
 

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