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GoblinQueeen — Animal Motion Study 2: cat
Published: 2003-12-17 04:49:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 22902; Favourites: 424; Downloads: 1975
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Technically, it's an ocelot, I believe, but for all intents and purposes, here, we'll call it a cat
At any rate, this is the second of two sheets of motion studies I did for my animal/wildlife drawing class and was done with live footage shot from the zoo. He's jumping for a high ledge and the camera cut off the top a bit, but I just filled in from what I've gotten watching my roomie's cat
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This is amazing. (I doodled a chubby little kitty cartoon in class today when I remembered this, so it's obviously less impressive and more cutesie). But I linked to you in the description because your work is awesome!
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i cant see larger dude can you fix iT
but its very sucsessful work
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Sorry, if the standard view is working, there's no reason I can think of the full view wouldn't. It might be a problem in the dev server.
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This motion study looks great.
From an animation point of view theres a key pose missing,
the anticipation which is either pose 1 and needs a pose before it or should be between pose 1 and 2.
Cats do a kinda small crouch down before the leap.
Try it out in flash.
Take these poses import the jpeg into flash (select) ctrl b(break) (deselect) the import then use the lasso tool to cut out each drawing make individual symbols (f8- name) of each.
then in a new layer make 8 keyframes and drag each symbol from library to stage in each blank keyframe, leaving frame 2 empty. Register the drawings so the distance looks right.Drag out the timing to make it look realistic although choppy.
Now try with the brush tool to draw a lower more squashed cat pose on frame 2.
Play.
Assuming you have flash.
Also you'll have a cool flash movie when you're done.
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That would be really awesome except for the fact that I don't have Flash 
As for the croutching, yeah, I was expecting that, but in this particular footage, he didn't for whatever reason or another. I went back through each frame time and time again, but he never did that real crouch. Even that first frame I fudged a little to make it seem more natural. It could be because he went almost straight from a walk, but I don't know. It may have just been too quick and subtle for the camera to capture, too. That's what's great about drawing animals, the unpredictability
Thank you very much for taking the time to critique, it's much appreciated, especially since I'm trying to put my portfolio together for submissions right now. It's nice to have the feedback.
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Nifty movement ^^ Now you make me want to try this! I like the sleekness here, I think ya did fine filling in the gaps. ::Grabs her digicam xD has to try this.:
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yay, I inspired someone 
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This is awesome! You certainly have " squash and stretch" down! Excellent fluid style. I love it! I love your sketching style!
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Thank you much, and after seeing your work, that means a lot more
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Oh wow. This is wonderful. The fluidity of motion comes out clearly in this. Gorgeous. Wish I could draw like that ^^
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Wonderful! Do you have any clips of animation you've done, assuming you've done some? I'd love to see some animation by you; I imagine it looks fantastic!
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I have the stuff I've filmed for class, but the computer stuff is waaaaaaay too big a file and the 2d stuff is on videotape
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Jump, kitty jump! Amazing flow, woman. ANd I love the back paw hanging off the ledge on the last drawing. Yep...really looks like Beaker there.
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Kitty!!! ^^ Don't you love the way cats move?? I think you captured the sleekness of their movements very well. Looks very professional!
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That's just excelent!
You're an superb artist I must say
You should really put together an animation in a gifanimator or something.
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Very sleek!!
I must admit.. the form and motion came out very well!!
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