Basic animal walk cycle - quadruped

 

Sketches of various animals in motion and how they differ, followed by an example of animal walk cycles from "The animators survival kit".

Slow Motion Magpie

As it was fairly difficult to observe actions in real time, I slowed down a video I took of a magpie taking off, so that I could observe key points more easily.

Flight Video 3

seagulls taking off and landing in water

Flight video 2

video of seagull in flight

motion studies - Flight video 1

I filmed various birds during take off, landing and flight - although this proved difficult it allowed me to see the differences in flight style depending on wing span, size and breed.  

Take off, short flight and landing of a pigeon.

Maya push Final

Push pose sketches

Push Reference

Similarly to the Pull exercise, I decided to get some reference photos of people pushing.

Maya - Push 1st attempt

My first attempt at Maya - I was quite happy with the posing, but some of the movements and angles looked quite unnatural - as well as the character floating/sliding at some stages.

Pull 3