I have realised that I'm not very good at drawing leopards so I have been practicing drawing them in my sketchbook. i have used the following images and videos to help me get the anatomy right.

I have also been trying to work out the walk cyle of a leopard and have found a very useful website, found here, which details the basics of the 2 legged walk cycle and how to draw them. Using that and the drawn images of 3 parts of a leopard walk cycle below I have been able to draw out the walk cycle in my sketch book.
















note:
these videos are wrong leopards don't walk like that there legs are out of sync e.g when the front left leg go forward the back left leg goes backwards.

I have started practicing drawing the diffrent scenes and trying to think about how the animation will work. in order for it to look as realistic as possiable I have been looking at real video footage and trying to pick out some of the movement which I could esaily replicate in an animation.
while I am trying to make the animation appear handdrawn on flat paper I want the audience to get a sense of depth and an ability to reach inside the frame past the page which the drawing is on.

http://www.backdropsfantastic.com/backdrop_images/300's/OA-008-African-Savannah-7.jpg (this image wont embed)




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