horse animations

[QUOTE=ezromation]Thats not very helpful mr graphite, try using your brain before your mouth sometimes

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It is very helpful...to those with ears to listen.
Simply, there is so much that would be unacceptable even if it were a student work. Generally it is as if the horse has no femour and its tibia is attached to the hip. It sometimes moves as if paralized with no successive indivdual joint movement. The front leg, while in contact, sometimes bends at that joint in the middle. Using comparitive anatomy, that joint is NOT a knee but the equivalent of our wrist. From my observation it only bends when off the ground. There's a wondeful book by Kent Hultgren where he has a sketch where this joint is bending while in contact. I even disagree with him. If I ever saw a horse like that, I'd think it'd injure itself. And the ABe Levitow explanation of a horse moving like a man being followed by an ostrich is only helpful to a point but useless if you don't look at a real horse because my feet can't curl back like a hoof. What tends to bend and take the stress in contact, like a shock absorber downwards , is the bone above the hooves. That bone above the hoof and the hoof itself can curl back when off the ground in motion. It looks as though Jerry just took the key full stride poses and inbetweened them....or then at least manipulated those tweens without an understanding of the anatomy so.....look at real horses.