Hey y'all! Here's the gist of the collab:

We make our own sheep jumping the fence, and put them all together in a video with music, or a game, or an app. We will have the most beautiful compilation of sheeps on the internet. The viewer's role is obviously to count them until they get sleepy. Our role is to animate them until we DIE.

Seriously though, this is a great chance to freshen up your animation skills: walking cycles, anticipation, all that jazz, and to have fun!

RULES & RECCOMENDATIONS

- Make a sheep, or a something in sheep costume, or something that resembles a sheep, and creatively move it from one side of the (provided) stage to the other.

- Gravity points down.

- Sheep can come in more than one piece.

- No change of shots or zoom in or any camera movements. You can add some thought bubble or a tooltip (like Smash Bros)

- If you use props (like a wheelchair) clean up after yourself! Take them off the stage one way or another, or talk to a friend and they can take them out of the stage in their piece :)

- Use this file for reference, it contains the (provided) stage, and the framerate (24fps) and the appropriate file width/height.

- Name your elements "USERNAME_nameofthing" and put them inside a folder in the flash library.

- If you use a program other than flash (you are more than welcome to do so) just export the animation of the sheep itself, no (provided), with a transparent background. Screen ratio is 16:9.

SOUND isnt necessary, but if you can throw in a cool jumping and landing sound, it would definitely spice things up.

RESOURCES

- 4-leg walk cycle reference.

- A sheep I did. I'll figure out a way to clean up. Promise.

Let your creative juices flow!