From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing animals

Drawing animals

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing animals

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- Obviously explaining the anatomical differences of different animals is a bit beyond the scope of this course, so I've got one movie to talk you through a general approach that will keep you out of trouble. Here we have our classic bipedal humanoid figure. And I've color coded his limbs: blue for the right, red for the left. And I've used a solid blue for his forearm and a light blue for his shin area on his lower leg. So if you look at how this compares with a dog, for example, the dog anatomy is very similar, it's just all rearranged. And you can see basically the same bones, they're just in a different layout. So this area here corresponds to the human lower arm. And the hatched blue lines here correspond to the hatched blue lines on the hand, their fingers, and ditto with the feet, the pads of the feet are the same here as here. The range of motion is also very similar, let's take a look at that. On the top left we have a more anatomical rendering of a dog and you can see I've…

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