Rhino House is a company that sells special DVD’s of life reference for Animators and Artist. Each DVD has multiple video tracks that give reference on a handful of animals and how they move. The DVD’s come in both Animal and Human versions.
From a review by Greg Singer at AWN.com:
Assuming you don’t have the benefit to research your subject in the wild, and assuming you don’t have the luxury to arrange firsthand animal visits to your studio, the Animal Motion Show from Rhino House is a helpful compromise and a handy reference. As a DVD compilation highlighting the everyday personality of a small assortment of animals, the disc set promises “hours of wildlife footage for study and entertainment, handpicked and categorized by professional animators and artists.”
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In the Locomotion submenu, there is a “Study†feature where you can examine an animal’s movement in four modes: Normal, Slomo, Grid and Film Strip. The Grid option has a convenient frame counter accompanying its playback, but in any of the modes you can pause the video (or print out images) for a frame-by-frame analysis. There is also a “Compare†feature where the same actions can be viewed from two different perspectives.
Sounds cool. It does cost about $60 for a disk of 5 animals, but the reference might keep paying forward into the future of any artist career.
