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frostykat13 — Animal Joints Reference
Published: 2013-10-29 20:13:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 5204; Favourites: 129; Downloads: 48
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Something I sketched up to help me with the kids I (kinda) teach where I live. I was trying to show that most common animals (cats, dogs, deer, horses, even MLP) have the same basic joints and anatomy. I'm not sure if I got each one exactly right, so don't be afraid to correct me in the comments if I was wrong on something (ps. I wasn't sure to put this under fanart or not, but I went ahead and did it cause it has pony stuff in it)Related content
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this will be helpful in the future but Chloe can you help with pony butts and eyes I need help darn it DX
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Sure!! How should I help you?
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Give us all your secrets on how you pony in a how to video cause I'd imagine that'd be easier then having step by step in drawings to idiots like me
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I was thinking about making a how-to-draw tutorial...I wonder if anyone would be interested
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make a poll you know I'll watch it though oh but write out a script
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yep I'd definitely write a script lol
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OMG I NEED THIS!! LOL seriously I've needed something like this. YAAAY!
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Cool! I'm glad somebody's getting some use out of it!!
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Well, even humans have the same basic joints, there's just the differences between hands and feet compared to paws and hooves, since all quadrupedal mammals are basically tiptoeing.
Speaking of which, you're missing one joint on all forelegs (technically not joint, just the last part of the leg representing fingers). All limbs have the same amount of major joints (shoulder->elbow->wrist->first finger joints/hoof and hip->knee->ankle->first toe joints/hoof).
So Cat/Dog should have one more part leading from the base of the paw to the tips of the fingers, just like you have with the hindleg.
Horse/Deer is technically correct since they have the bone between shoulder and elbow basically immovable if I remember correctly, so they do have one less movable part, but the proportions should be different then.
And as for Ponies, you can go with the horse version, though given the flexibility their forelegs have shown in the series I'd say their foreleg structure is closer to cats than regular horses, some weird hybrid.
Hope it all makes some kind of sense...
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Thanks for your advice!!! 
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