I'll stick with the scraps for now.

Ahhh okay. That Richard Williams thing is an app on the App Store also. I had downloaded it. Content looked good, but costs too much for me. I'm going to rough it out on my own.

The DVD's are $959.50 !!!!!!

nice tutorial zester keep going
btw is it just me or the angry walk looks like he is dancing ?

Yah the "Angry Walk" looks funny to me also now that I look at it.

The "Happy Walk" reminds me of one of Cinderellas step sisters (Drizella Tremaine) when she is getting ready for the ball and does the marches angerly down the hall to complain to her mother that she has nothing to wear..

You can get the pdf for free here.

The Animators Survival Kit by: Richard Williams
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5445343/the-a … d-williams

There is also The Illusion of Life Disney Animation found here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25187588/The- … -Animation

Here is a list of Animation Related Books
http://animation101.newgrounds.com/news/post/532976

Here an extract about horse animation :
http://youtu.be/INQx-Lzs8mU

Haven't been able to do the game mechanics part of the game for all of the technical issues. We will see.

Here is one for a Horse I found.

Good animation tutorial, it's the basics of animation any 3d animator need to master,
you can transmit a lot of the character feeling and energy with the body, thanks, keep going.

Thank you I will be sure to go all out.

Isn't animation blending just combining two different animations? So animation 1 makes the character walk and animation 2 makes it attack with a sword, and one doesn't interfere with the other in the process.
Maratis doesn't currenlty support it though.

You got it. In maratis we would have to have ...

1. Walk Animation
2. Attack Animation
3. Walk and Attack Animation

But in Blender once you have 1 and 2 you can Blend them to make 3.

I just found out that you can do animation blending in Blender. Then it is just a matter of setting the animation points to the correct frames. Keep Going Zester. hehe

I am not sure if or how "Animation Blending" from Blender to Maratis would be done. But the old school way is to have a "Transitional Animation" that would play before a "Primary Animation", but regardless Ps2, Xbox, Gamecube games didn't use "Animation Blending" or "Morph targets" those are advanced features normally found in Highend  Graphics/Game Engines. (PS3, PS4, Xbox360, Xbox?) there might be some game engines for the Wii that supports those.

I am not concerned with it.

" ◾Layered animation blending and mixing using masks and additive channels ' does it ?

IF so, that's fine by me, but I think we need some clarification on this, as to how it relates to maratis, and what
visuals as a result will be degraded by not having the features as noted here above, in maratis atm.