I rigged and animate this character as a part of a reanimated collab hosted by the artist group PokeEarth Collabs, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Pokemon series. As a part of the collab, each animator animated a different Pokemon in their own style.

 

I picked the fire fox Vulpix for the challenge of rigging and animating a quadruped character. Each leg is built with FK, IK, curve deformers and envelopes, and each of the six tails uses a curved deformer to stretch and bend.

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I designed all of the views for Vulpix in Photoshop and I used Toon Boom Harmony to rig and animate the character. I animated the flame by hand in Toon Boom, and used After Effects to add the glow effect.

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The final collaboration with all of the artists' work was released on the 27th February 2026.