I’ve been wanting to practice my art with wolves. It takes me time to correctly draw their legs, and the esoteric aspects of their anatomy remains a mystery to me today. So, I thought I might practice by drawing an animation. I took a clip from a movie on YouTube and traced as many frames as the pause button could reveal.
The animation is barely over a second long, but it does manage to give you the illusion of a wolf running. Now, the wolf was mostly black, and rather blurry, so I made some amateurish mistakes (Namely confusing the front legs). In the video, the wolf was running in the snow, so that led to the legs being cut off from time to time.
It’s not all that good, but it’s also not all that bad for a first try.
Click past the jump to see the animation.
This animation lacks one thing. Well, two.
1. It looks like his tongue should be hanging out of the side of his mouth.
2. A pause/stop button.
Good job, though. Art is much more convincing in motion, sometimes.
In the video the dog pretty much kept it in his mouth (‘cept for one frame).
And a pause/stop button would require some flash coding that I’m not entirely familiar with.
But yeah, I kept it off the front page because it’s kinda annoying.
This is an excellent idea; I must try this for horses/deer!
There was an awesome part in the movie with a straight shot of a wolf chasing some caribou that I wanted to do. But I think the trial for the flash animator I was using expired.