I finished one Minotaur and started a second while reusing some of the keys. I have three more Minotaurs who are large in the foreground to animate. The plan then is to reuse some Minotaurs to fill out the herd charging down the street. My plan shows the tracks they travel on down the street.
Pam and I took the dogs for a walk this weekend and I spent the entire walk watching the dogs back legs to see how they worked. I am trying to replicate that movement in the runs of these mythical creatures. Since the legs are different than human legs I am having some challenges figuring out the poses. The entire lower leg is like the human foot and only the upper leg is like a human thigh and calf. The entire run then is like a human running on tip toe.
I should get the book on animal motion. My animation might not be perfectly accurate but hopefully it is believable. I would guess that I might have three more days working on this scene in Callipeg. Oh that reminds me, last night after working on the scene all day the program froze and all the drawings in the timeline disappeared. I stepped away from the computer to calm my nerves for a bit and then came back and tried to do a hard reboot of the iPad. I had to do this over and over. I was following the directions but it turns out the timing of the button pressing is a critical issue. After the 5th or 10th try I got the timing right and the tablet rebooted. Thankfully all the drawings were there when the program was reopened. Callipeg seems to have issues with freezing when the eraser is selected. Best not to erase then, but I erase all the time while animating. I do wish Apple was smart enough to use the opposite end of the pencil as the eraser rather than having the artist select an icon to erase. Oh well tech is slow to develop.