3D Animals in Motion : horse

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9.2.14

Horse walk done

I've animated the tail, eyes and blinks and I'm going to finish with this one to move onto the next.

6.2.14

I'm onto the hips and shoulders and as you can see the shoulders and front legs still need a lot of work. I'm finding the front half harder than the back half to do for some reason. I think once I get the tilting of the hooves it may look better and no popping of the knees.

Still getting the weird knee pops, I've adjusted the shoulders and height of the hoof lift so now I'm just cleaning up the graph editor to see if that makes a difference.

I've cleaned up the graph editor and at the beginning I've got rid of the knee pop.

Working on the tail movement now.

30.1.14

Horse Stepped

My progress with the stepping. Just need to add more frames then I'm onto linear.

Some linear

24.1.14

Blocking

I'll post my blocking progress here for the horse animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyJksD2P_fE

This is before the horse walks forward.

Grease pencil to mark out the walk cycle, I did it without but got confused near the end, so I went over it when the pencil to see where I went wrong. It helped a lot.

Back to the horse walk cycle

I will be going back to continue with the horse walk cycle, although I think I will start again and have the horse move it's head like I have in the sketches before I animate the walk cycle. The current one I have makes it look like it's sliding. But it's a learning curve from all the horse walk cycles I've attempted.

17.11.13

Horse walk wip

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

8.11.13

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.