February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 7m
English
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Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
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Timing Animals’ Movements: Horses
The order in which the feet of a horse touch the ground is: back left, front left, back right, front right, back left, front left, back right, front right, etc.
A horse normally takes about a second to make one complete stride, that is, from “back left” to “back left.” If it is walking freely the feet touch the ground at equal intervals of time.
If 24 frames is taken as the length of a walk cycle, back left hits the ground on frame 1, “back right” hits the ground on frame 13 and “front left” and “front right” hit the ground on frames 7 and 19, respectively.
In the step position on the back legs, on frames 1 and 13, the back legs form two sides of a triangle. The rump is lower than it is on frames 7 and 19, where ...
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