Animating deer

This is some of my work the past few weeks.
I'm working on school every day with fourth grade students, Marsha, Fieke and Jordie.
Gladys, who is in the same class as me, is also present.

It's really nice to work with people you like. We also make tea and listen to the radio all day long.

Anyway, Marsha tells me which scenes need to be done and where there are deer in the background. She also gives me instructions that the deer in the background shouldn't distract from the actual animation in front.
It's really nice to get so much feedback, I'm learning really fast and Marsha guides me well :)

So, here are some results of the past few weeks. It's not much, but I'm on my way.

(In some videos I made Marsha's work invisible, because I felt it's not mine to share on the internet. I didn't think much harm would be done with the deer eating.)

Deer

I'm helping out a fourth-year student with her project. The story is about death falling in love with life, and life is being symbolized by a deer.

This is her webpage with a few pictures of the project : http://marshagallery.blogspot.com/

I'm going to help her out with animating deer in the background. So I'm doing a little research right now. The following is not really mine, there are links mentioned, where I got the images from.

Besides these cycles that I have arranged, I have drawn more deer today. This morning I realized I still didn't really understood how to draw a deer, so I've practiced all day and my results are below. I'm pretty pleased with how they came out, and now I have the confidence it will work out during animating.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHxHxQbe0E


http://yueki.deviantart.com/art/Deer-Walk-cycle-5160404


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtI1g1Wzfc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgI0jU6dgvM