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Published: 2006-07-14 06:13:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1204; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 39
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Originally I just wanted to have an emote playing the flute, since I also play it (and yes, I'm a guy, so no need to go check my page for my gender again
). I soon remember that you play the flute using your fingers vs. your hands, and ran into an animation problem: Emote guys have.no.fingers. Eventually this popped out of my head. Took several days; partially because I'm lazy and partially because a lot of animation needed to be smoothed out. I'm still not perfectly happy with it, but I'm hoping someone else's input will help me fix this up better. Enjoy!*Edit*
I cleaned up the slowing of the waving arms, as well as added some motion lines to both emotes waving arms that way it wasn't just the hands switching sizes.
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That's hilariously adorable to the utter extreme...
Go flutes!
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It rocks other than one little thing... He is playing the flute the wrong way... it should be played on the other side... if you could flip the whole thing then it would work! but if not... it is still wrong... no offence... Sorry I can't help it... I'm a flute... O.o But it rocks! I loves it!!! FLUTES ROCK!
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lol, Yay flute! Attack the non-believers. Haha, this is too cute. For playing the flute for 6 years, I never thought to stick it into someone's eye 
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I just love that long moment of .... 
... And then he gets the flute back!
Congrats on your DD!
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FLUTE!
My favorite thing is when people stick their fingers in the end of the flute to try to block the sound, and it does absolutely nothing.
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Silly people! When will they learn the sounds comes from the whole instrument.
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It makes me laugh whenever they freakout!
This is so awesome!
Although all your emoticons are wicked cool..
And even if it took forever, the hands are so ingenious!
Especially how as he calms down they slow down.
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The hands...I don't even want to go into how long they took
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Oh definetly this rocks!
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He seems so happy to get the flute... It's a shame he never gets to play it! What a fun emoticon.
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Great animation! Flute players rock!
The only thing I have to say is that the emote is holding the flute wrong right before he plays....unless it was in a mirror...
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Flute players do rock!
I don't think that he's holding the flute wrong, however. The left hand (the hand closest to the head joint) comes from under the flute and up to wrap around, while the right hand goes straight on top of the foot joint.
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Yeah I know, but the flute is on the wrong side of his body. When playing the flute, you hold it on your right side, not your left side. The emote is holding it off to his left.
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flute players can be so mean..
gr8 animation, man
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No flute players tend to be stuck up. I should know I was in the mess of them when I was in band. I've played for 6 almost 7 years. But for 3 of those years I've been a piccolo. And I've been learning Alto Sax for the past month or two... But yeah... flute players arn't nice... But reminder I'm not one of them!
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Thanks loads man. I'm glad you like the hands; they were the hardest part!
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the hands are what made me fav it, it's really funny to look at that emote
gr8 job
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Lmao, cute animation. Smooth for the most part, though when he goes from Oo eyes to || eyes you should have a transition frame, since he's turning his head at the same time. Looking at your gallery, it's easy to see that you're improving fast
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Thanks for the nice words!
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I really like this. Flautists are winners.
Though, I don't like how he just holds the flute for a little bit before playing it. I mean, no one's conducting so it's like a big pause, or stopping point; kind of like the frame was held too long. Unless it's supposed to be like that (for whatever reason) and I'd say it's great as is. Also, I think maybe just one or two less slow arm waving up and down after the freaking out part because it feels like there's one too many on that (personal preference though for that, I guess. 
Again though, I really like. :)
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Thank you for the comments! I actually agree with all of those points; the whole emote is a lot smoother like this. Thank you for your help.
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I think it looks quite smooth actually, I love the motions lines when the hands start flailing, great touch!
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Thanks! Fixing the flailing motions really smoothed out the animation.
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... and then they'll go and blame it on the flute player
This is really funny and original
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They always blame it on the flute player! But one day...
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......... we'll flute the all who do to death!
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I like it, though the slowing of the arms as the little guy calms down is kinda odd...doesn't look quite right...perhaps it is the three circles for the hands that just don't seem to fit for the slower movement.
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Yah, you're probably right.
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