Aaron Blaise - Animating a Cartoon Dog Run

 

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.

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— Aaron Blaise (@AaronBlaiseArt) August 17, 2016

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

Slow Motion Dog Reference

Found this great run reference today while I was perusing some hi-speed camera footage from NAB. The reference footage starts around the 1:41 mark!







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Motion reference: quadruped

Here's some more quadruped reference. The tiger stalking vid is just crazy!

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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