Aaron Blaise: Horse Run Cycle Breakdown

Aaron Blaise posted this excellent horse run cycle cheat sheet today on his Twitter feed. Great reference! Also, checkout the animated cycle below.

You can follow him on Twitter here: @AaronBlaiseArt

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— Aaron Blaise (@AaronBlaiseArt) August 17, 2016

Animal Reference: Stunning Mouse Chase Through the Desert

Some great reference here!  Thanks Brett for the heads up!

More animal reference here // Animal Reference

Advanced Quadruped Running Robot

This was to cool not to post! Be sure to check out the slow-motion clip at the end of the vid! More info about the bot over on WIRED

// Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey via WIRED

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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