Foxy Wants a Hug by Yoshermon on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

The moment I saw this in the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 trailer, I immediately interpreted it as a flying tackle hug as a way to cope. And then I animated it!

Blegh, this thing was a pretty strong reality check for me. Up until now, I've been animating by copying other animations frame-by-frame. While it definitely helped me learn the ins and outs of Source Filmmaker, it did little to get me to experience animating without copying off of a template. Thus, you can see that a lot of the animation here doesn't look quite right, and my efforts to make it look more natural only resulted in a lot of frustration and a few parts I had to painstakingly re-animate entirely. In the end, though, I did learn a lot, and hopefully I can do better next time with less trial-and-error and frustration.

Also, if anyone is wondering about why Foxy is so freakishly huge, I'm retroactively basing him off of this wonderful height chart: Heights

You can see the raw video render used for this here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVm4oK…