THE CAT MISSION !
The cat mission began with learning how to draw 4 legged animals, the emphasis on cats for the quadrated cycle . I was unable to figure out cat anatomy so I created a MISSION! to draw 100 CATS . My animation process involved breaking down cat anatomy to its skeleton structure and analysis the differences from the tail the ways their shoulders manoeuvre as cats are fury creates it can difficult to know how their bodies move .
Deliberate Practise Process
After reading a book on deliberate practise a few years ago, I quickly came to the realisation that simply drawing 30 cats will do my no good , and in-fact can do me more harm, if I can't pin point exactly what is that Im getting inaccurate. I realised the simplest way of self analysis would be to do a study of the cats and then underlay the original study underneath . This allows me to highlight the features and proportions that I got wrong whilst also looking at what it is i got correct, before reattempting the same study again . This process was done with many of the drawings seen above.
Original
Study
Attempt 1
Attempt 2
Attempt 3
Cat Anatomy
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Cat walk Animation
Below are the first cat animations that I created . The initial animation below was created on procreate and only used 7 repeated frames (14 total ) . This explains the jigger in the walk I also wanted to use wave physics in the tail of the cat instead o f having it stand rigid, lastly I wanted the stomach to bend in the movement as the original reference would. I was quite pleased with the first draft overall.
First Draft of Cat Walk
Second Draft
Third Draft
cat run
Cat Run Animation
Cat stop