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Slowly crank down the portculis
Unless there are barbarians, then just drop it
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I did a gate opening mechanically and closing fast
Smooth and slow portcullis vs slamming portcullis:
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This is my go at this. Please excuse the wonky door way 
I wanted to get the animation out as fast as possible and so made some corner cuts here and there!
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I cheated a bit. I reused material from the Blender 3D course (which I followed and appreciated very much). Where we crafted a church with a arch. I only needed to build render the portcullis. and three render with transparent bitmaps (I could have rendered it also as animation in Blender, but I didn’t).
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Based on:
That’s it. Happy animating.
here’s my porticl…whatever its called
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Slow And Steady…
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Here are my porcullises. I kept them simple and they still took me a decent chunk of time!
The inner portcullis is animated mechanically. It moves at 5 px per frame. The outer portcullis starts out moving at 5 px a frame for the first two frames, then doubles it’s movement each frame for three frames, and bounces and jiggles at the end.
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Love the jiggle!
Nice shake at the end!
Here’s the portcullis being steadily lowered.
This second one moves a little bit farther each tick, and then I added some dust at the end.
Dang. Should have made mine bounce! I did mine before watching the rest of the video.
