Creature animation (WIP) - student looking for crit

wenlisoon

Looking for feedback for some creature animation pieces. They are for my uni showreel class, unfortunately I've never done creature animation before until these 2, so I'm really looking for any feedback for how the creatures feel, and how they act and.... everything ... really. 

This is the Wolf animation which is slightly further along.
https://syncsketch.com/playground/a69bc7440a3e4aea8038c44473dff623#274152

This dragon is still in pretty early stages, I'm pretty confused about what his wings should be doing, looking for some feedback before i proceed further. 
https://syncsketch.com/playground/b22f3c36940743799b7e5990ab752877#274154

thanks in advance

AnthonyAnimation

Hey, thanks for sharing! Creature/animal work is really challenging. What I recommend most is to study reference a lot. Focus on how the weight moves and foot contact.

Here's a good resource that might help with quadruped locomotion- http://danielfotheringham.com/quad-blog-beta/
This really helped me when I was studying birds (which can be applied to dragons!)- http://www.brendanbody.co.uk/flight_tutorial/index.html

IgorSilva

I've put some notes, but take a look in more references like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_Ym_7Nh34
you can look for dog's too.