raptor
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This is an animation of a raptor idle. In the idle the raptor moves up on it's leg in order to get a better view of it's souroundings.
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One of my first ideas for this animation was to make it sniff the air, as if smelling for a prey or something alike. However I felt that the sniffing movement both made the head rather robotic and stiff looking, while alos making the raptor feel more like a dog. Which wasn't what I wanted. Because of this I instead decided to delete the sniff and instead focus more on having it looking around, being curious about it's surrounding, before getting down into it's natural pose.
description:
This is an animation of a raptor run.
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This animation turned out to be quite the rollercoaster. Finding suitable references for it wasn't the easiest of tasks, but in the end I setled on using Jurassic Park as a one of my biggest references for the animation.
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This was one of the first creature animations I have ever done and so figuring out how the different body parts of this creature is supposed to move around was rather difficult. In the end however, I do feel that I managed to figure some of it out and this, is the end result.