Animation Progress: Scene and Lamb

To make my scene, I started off with the photos I had taken from the farm and drew over them in photoshop to get the final colours and objects for the scene. I then took these 2 images and composed them in photoshop to form the layout for my scene. I spent a couple of hours hand drawing and texturing everything. I didn’t want to use images as textures as I wanted to keep the image looking drawn.



I plan to use this as my background in animate and will be the scene in which the lamb will walk around in.


I have created the lamb and its walking cycle, including a standing state. I have tried the code from the Terminator work but it appears to just create errors. I will work on getting the code to work in order to make the lamb and background move. After this, I will begin making objects for the scene and the animated events. 

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