Give the shoulder blades more freedom:
1 Turn on Auto Key. Go to frame 1, select the dog’s
shoulder blade (Biped01 R Clavicle), then rotate it up about 35 degrees in
the local Z axis.2 Make sure only the shoulder blade/clavicle is selected, then on the
Copy/Paste rollout, click Copy Posture.3 Click Paste Posture to paste the shoulder blade posture at frame
13.4 At frame 25, don’t paste the posture, but rotate the shoulder blade up
about 30 degrees.
Pasting the pose lifts the dog’s foot off the ground, and we don’t want
that to happen.5 Click Paste Posture Opposite to paste shoulder blade posture onto
the left shoulder blade at frames 1, 13, and 25.6 Switch to display all four viewports before you preview the
animation.
We have been working mostly in the Left viewport, but this is a
three-dimensional animation, and it helps to look at the motion from
other points of view.
With more movement in the shoulder blades, the quadruped walk has
more of a loping feel to it: a gait that we associate with wolves and larger
dogs.Add some side-to-side movement to the pelvis:
1 Maximize the Top viewport.Animating a Quadruped Walk | 1031