Reference for Alligator walk cycle on land

Reference for swimming Crocodile

Well isolated audio of an Alligator bellowing. A loud, deep type of guttural growl. I really cool piece of audio I'd like to incorporate into my animation.

Reference for a Crocodile slightly jumping and chomping down on some meat.

A reference for the wolf howling. Footage of a real wolf in a sanctuary howling at the thunder.

Another reference for the wolf howling. A collection of wolves howling from an animated series Wolf's Rain.

Guard stances for two handed sword

Goofy training montage from the movie Highlander. The sword attacks are fairly slow, exaggerated, easily telegraphed and theatrical. Not good a reference for fast-paced, well choreographed sword fight. But as my character will be animated alone, I think this slower more stylised show of sword play will work better. The camera work and location are something I find really cliché and fun.

Blocking done for Azri character taunting an unseen adversary.

A first pass for Azri, testing what it would look like if she kept her hand up.

Crocodile Blocking pass

Wolf howling blocking pass

I created a camera and parented it to the wolf's face in order to view the face throughout its dramatic movement.

The face camera on the wolf howling without the controls.

Crocodile chomp finished animation playblast.

Crocodile Chomp with sound

Wolf howling finished animation playblast.

Wolf howling from a cinematic view with the moon in the background. I created the moon model and the added some lighting to the playbast as a test.