A diagonal two beat gait, in quadrupeds, is called an amble. It's the most efficient gait for distance. That's what gaited horses and elephants use to cover huge spans of terrain. Although, would that really matter for a robot?
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Horses are tough but also incredibly delicate. A legacy of using pack horses in both war and peace time doesn't give you the full idea of how many horses have to be killed on the spot because they put a hoof down in a gopher hole and snap a tendon. Shit, horses are killed on movie sets at the drop of a hat. That is…
Very well put!
I didn't think any of that was funny. It was generic and weirdly modern and the animation has no soul to it. But, then, what did I expect!
Yeah, brilliant. It's like he takes all the melancholy beauty of Scandinavian design, but makes concept art out of it. Everything feels like a real dream....
I love that you've featured Simon a couple of times now. He is a true concept artist.
There was an otter at the Santa Barbara Zoo back in the day who would climb up on a tree stump, take a poo, angle himself very carefully and use his tail to fling the poo directly at all the people watching. FTW!
I think the very best shot in any fantasy in all of film is the shot of the knight exploding through Kevin's closet door. Absolutely everything about the magic of adventure is captured in that brilliant visual.
Hey! Only ACCD grads are allowed to shit-talk our alma mater! ;)
Curse those genius French animators and their geniusness!
That's not science. That's a magical folk tale!
That would be brilliant, especially since Lost is so flawed as a story, yet is full of literary references. I'd take that class!!
Nicely put. Although I'd pay a lot of money for a college course where I got to have lots of breakfasts while jerking off!
RIMSHOT! ;)
Yeah, my favorite course that I teach involves having students figure out which aspects of Hitchcock's oeuvre are populist, and which are intellectual. They love it. Both are relevant!
I agree, which is why I refuse to let my students take the easy way out. If they chose to create a project about the resurgence in popularity of 8-bit gaming, they have to illustrate shifting patterns in traditional and non-traditional visual storytelling in order to prove their point. Just saying "I like turtules"…
Meredith, I feel this is an unfair judgment. Classes about pop culture are nothing new. In point of fact, my terminal degree is in popular literature. The college courses I teach - which are packed every single term they run - reference everything from 'Pan's Labyrinth' to 'The Big Lebowski' to James Jean and…