So, trying to narrow down exactly what I'm gonna look at so that I'm not doing fuck-all for lots of things, but doing something decent for a few things. There's three main classifications for quadrupeds:
- Unguligrade - point of toes (typically hooves)
- Plantigrade - flats of feet
- Digitigrade - toes
I'm thinking the plantigrade one that I'm gonna analyse would be the bear. It'd help me out if I use Joey later on in other things, so I think it'll be worth having that knowledge to hand.
The unguligrade, I'm probably gonna be unoriginal and analyse a horse. From what I can tell, most unguligrades have extremely similar walks anyway, so in terms of animation, it'll probably have lots of transferable principles.
Digitigrade will probably be a tiger, because I got a pretty damn good video of the tiger at Noah's Ark Farm, so that'll be good to break down, then look into other tiger/cat movements.
- Unguligrade - point of toes (typically hooves)
- Plantigrade - flats of feet
- Digitigrade - toes
I'm thinking the plantigrade one that I'm gonna analyse would be the bear. It'd help me out if I use Joey later on in other things, so I think it'll be worth having that knowledge to hand.
The unguligrade, I'm probably gonna be unoriginal and analyse a horse. From what I can tell, most unguligrades have extremely similar walks anyway, so in terms of animation, it'll probably have lots of transferable principles.
Digitigrade will probably be a tiger, because I got a pretty damn good video of the tiger at Noah's Ark Farm, so that'll be good to break down, then look into other tiger/cat movements.