Animating A Character

Animating a character has its own techniques and strategies depending on just what kind of light you want the character to be seen in. My model was a fox and I made him look more cartoon-y than realistic because of his squashing and stretching.

The character is scared, and I have him exaggeratedly flailing his arms and jumping off of the ground in response to something frightening. I made sure to put extra attention to his ears, folding them when something was wrong and bringing them up when alert.

The tail doesn't have any bones in it, its just a long piece of fur. So I had it as loose as possible in the beginning, but made it become rigid when he became scared, like many animal characters in cartoons. I had fun playing with the eyes and mouth of the character as well, making sure to set the key points for both throughout.