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Well I tallied the votes for the most popular mermaid designs and now I'm going to take the top 8 and do animation tests of them swimming.

How a character moves in animation is just as important as how they look. I want to make sure I am able to make an informed decision on which character to use in my Animated Short.

So here is the first one. The Manta Ray Mermaid. Its not perfect but I think I got the over all flow of the wings. I had to remove the hands because I had trouble making them look attached to her. If I figure out how to add hands, i'll upload another.

See the original design here: [link]
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~RageTH Aug 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Took me a while, but I finally got to this.

It's a very nice animation!
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~nmil2526 Jul 26, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You need to make more of these!
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~DoodleBuggy Jul 30, 2012  Professional
I shall! Once i figure out how to animate hair underwater better! I'm going to be doing some hair movement studies.
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~nmil2526 Jul 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Coolness! P.S., your mermaid concepts are so cool and original
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~DoodleBuggy Sep 2, 2012  Professional
thanks ^^
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~Charmed-Ravenclaw Jun 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That's cute!
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~SnapesAngel Apr 3, 2012
That's cute~

For the hands...would some fingers, in the style of a sort of fringe at wing's edge,, work ? The only other thing I can think if is if you added the hands as some form of talon. [link] [link] [link] I included the links to some images I Googled quickly, to let you know what I ended up thinking about, in style of the image. It works well the way it is, though, and it flows well.
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~DoodleBuggy Apr 6, 2012  Professional
interesting idea! I shall try that!
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Mood: Sweet ~AnotherOddity Apr 3, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
It looks like a cross between a manta ray and a penguin. I find that exceedingly adorable.
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~artemisio Apr 3, 2012
oooh *3*
is this frame by frame or shape tween?
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