I tried to find realistic walking cycle for sheep. Best footage would be side view (and of course behind would be nice too) where camera is not moving at all. Find one animated cycle (many animals - but not 100% side view) but tried with that and my sheep is like he/she would have visited in camp of wolfs.
Use Motion Tracking to track her eye. Then find the add empty to track location button and press it. Make the Empty the Parent of the Armature and the Armature will follow the video automatically. Lock the view to the active Motion track so the eye stays in one place and the video moves to keep the eye in that location.
You only need from about 15 - 22 seconds.
Read the Manual about tracking and watch some videos if you have never done any before.
Its easy and very useful once you learn the basic Tracking. This person has a good series
It is an older version of Blender - but little has changed.
Thanks for these, looks great! I have had none time to test still.
But these two videos are huge to download! Have You tip how to get only part of it downloaded (for free)?
Actually i meant this (of course ) partly as a joke… but also to: just have look to get a felling for the movement of sheep…
…also i’m not aware of any additional download tool which only download a part of any video…
Of course there was already a lot of time spend to capture locomotion of anything since back in the time of b/w motion picture started to be capable of this… you may have a look at L
I was looking up how 4 legged creatures walk a few days ago.
I think all 4 legged creatures walk pretty much the same. Front legs are 1/2 a cycle out of sync with the back legs, as that link will explain.
Running varies quite a bit. Slow animals - sheep, cattle - don’t run like fast animals - cheetah, dog - do. But you have to learn to walk before you can run.
Thanks, these helps! Drone view would be also nice to see how body moves. Again can only imagine how much information is installed here in any creature.