Masterclass - Animating Animals

Some really excellent advice http://vimeo.com/33660586#

Showreels and animal animations

Research on how to make showreels and examples of showreels. I'll put here the best ones I've found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvq1171As4M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7p-hIm7QGs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0fUVBQU3mI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGXlIlzCYDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlgYPQq92w8


Some animation ideas

from 1.30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLIvmMlZoQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmzsjdkXss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpV9rf-hqsw

Horse walk wip

Very slowly getting there. Though far too many setbacks when I think I corrected something.

Walk cycles

Cats and horses do not have the same walk and maya doesn't like the keys moved around too much.

Workflow for quadrueped walk cycles

Samy Mandrake Fecih on the facebook group Bring your own Animation - London  posted up his workflow he uses and the video he uses to teach his students.
http://vimeo.com/79022941

I'm going to follow his video and try his way to make a walk cycle, as it will help my own and looks like it will be a lot quicker than the way I've been animating. If it's not, I will take some points that I like and use it with my own.

Horse walk test 2D

I used the Animators Survival guide book to produce this as a reference for myself in 2D.
I think the up and down movement is too much and shouldn't be as obvious unless the legs are pulled up higher and the head should be lower and more horizontal to the body. Although it does look like a foal (baby horse) and not an adult, which is not what I wanted as my model is of an adult horse.

But it served it's purpose to visualise the movements from these.