The Quadruped Walk Cycle: week 1

There is the walk cycle diagram and the developed pony walk cycle

 

It was my first experience of creating the quadruped walk cycle. As the main reference I used the horse walk cycle example from Richard Williams "The Animator's Survival Kit" book for my own pony walk.

There are those examples, taken from the book.

 

(pictures from Richard Williams"The Animator's Survival Kit", p. 356 and 357)

To understand and create more realistic body movement of pony walking, I watched many videos, but there are some, which helped me  a lot. Also later  I watched them to analise the movement from standing still to the run cycle.