In the game that I'm designing with some friends, Knights of Kooragalot: Shield Search, the hero rides a horse. Here is a very rough design of a man on a horse:
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/913/roughequestriananimatioyp6.gif)
By wackywildcard (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/wackywildcard) at 2008-01-14
Could I please get some visual help on how to animate a horse more realistically, not just with the right and left side but front and back too?
I would be very grateful if some skillful artists could show some rough sketches of a horse's walk complete cycle
Thank You!
You can use some of these animations (http://www.greenacres-stud.com/horseanimation.htm) as a reference.
http://www.greenacres-stud.com/horseanimation.htm (http://www.greenacres-stud.com/horseanimation.htm)
http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Mammals/Horses/Horses2.html (http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Mammals/Horses/Horses2.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0tLhzexhl8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0tLhzexhl8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTHBe4xzJ4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTHBe4xzJ4)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Animhorse.gif)
:) Thanks! These links will help greatly! But any chance I could get some more front and back animations as well? ???
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HRImHGMxQek
scroll down to small horse:
http://www.animationlibrary.com/sc/73/Horses/?page=8
:)
Thanks! Those GIFs are helping! I have Adobe Image Ready - it allows me to open Animated GIFs into separate slides - so, I'm able to individually edit them and add detail to the pics!
:)