Speed Kills - Why You Can't Outrun a Cheetah

Great reference footage here!

Cheetah running full speed - Running slow motion (1,200 FPS)

Animal Reference: Troop of Gorillas visit a camp

This vid has some nice motion reference for gorillas walking and interacting. Thanks Adam Ely for the heads up!

MasterClass - Animating Animals

This is a great lecture on the basics of animal animation from William Greobe who's currently an animation sup over at Tippett. Check out the whole vid over on my friend Andy Hass's blog (he's also a rock star Tippett animator)!

// MasterClass - Animating Animals via Andy's Anim blog 

Animal Reference - Kitten vs Two Scary Things

This is just brilliant! Great action reference! The 'Alien' sound track is a nice touch heh heh




Found this one useful as well!

Animating 4 legged animals

I found this basic animation breakdown for 4 legged animals over on Animation Meat a while back. Cool stuff -- nice reminders for line of action, anatomy and simplicity of form.

Animating and Drawing 4-Legged Animals.PDF -- via Animation Meat

















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Eadweard Muybridge - compilation video [warning: artistic nudity]

This is an interesting video compilation of some of Muybridge's work. The piece is kind of 'artsy' but there are some decent sections.

{aslo} Muybridge image search on BING - Muybridge Images