I'd really like if someone told me any good tips on cat walk cycles, my dream Scratch project.

I use the Scratch tools to try and animate, I think a non downloadable source for animation would be good since I use a chromebook for Scratch.

I do not own the picture/animation on my profile, credit to whoever made it, found it somewhere on Google.

You could try searching for images of a cat walk cycle on a search engine, then study each frame of it.

Drawing walk cycles can be really hard. You can either search up the images of a cat walking, or (if you have a cat) take a slow motion video of it walking and study it, or even try to visualize a cat in your mind.

fluf46 wrote:

I'd really like if someone told me any good tips on cat walk cycles, my dream Scratch project.

I use the Scratch tools to try and animate, I think a non downloadable source for animation would be good since I use a chromebook for Scratch.

I do not own the picture/animation on my profile, credit to whoever made it, found it somewhere on Google.

Most 4-legged animals have an alternating leg pattern. In other words, when the front legs are left forward and right back, then the back legs are left back and right forward.

If you can do a human walk cycle, then apply what I just said and you will have a cat walk cycle.


By the way, note that your icon violates the “alternating legs” rule and looks unnatural.

fluf46 wrote:

I'd really like if someone told me any good tips on cat walk cycles, my dream Scratch project.

I use the Scratch tools to try and animate, I think a non downloadable source for animation would be good since I use a chromebook for Scratch.

I do not own the picture/animation on my profile, credit to whoever made it, found it somewhere on Google.

well, there was a Scratch Design Studio on walk cycles just a month or two ago - have you looked at any of the entries to pick up some ideas?

I use a non-downloadable somewhat more advanced program, it does not have a proper onion skin mode, but it has layers and layer transparency. There is also a feature to save the current image as a PNG to upload it into Scratch. It's here if you want to try it. Again, it does not require any proper downloading of any content, simply saving the image as a file to your computer is about as close as I feel necessary (although carefully-placed/framed screenshots should do the trick as well if necessary. Although, I am yet to try Pixlr on my Chromebook and ise it instead on my Macbook Pro, so it may not work the best. Also, the trackpad for Chromebooks doesn't seem to do as well for me, but that's up to you.


As for the tips, sketching is a good place to start. If you want to use the Scratch bitmap editor, try sketching in a color you won't use (most use red or blue for the sketch, although grey is sometimes used to create basic shapes to place the sketch. To delete a sketch or placement sketch, color the entire canvas with the color used to draw the sketch. Then color it in a transparent color (it appears as white icon with a red line going diagonally through it) instead of pressing the undo button (or, I do the Command + Z trick). This will get rid of the sketch. If a few pixels of the sketch remain, either fill the line-art or fill in the shape around it. Also, many people do three line-arts before the final line-art is complete. They use the grey placement sketch, the red base sketch, a blue detail sketch, a hot pink sketch to clean it up, and the color black for the final line-art. With all this said, some successful Scratch artists don't sketch but, of course, still make great art. The easiest way to animate multiple similar frames is to do the line-art of the first frame, then color it in a color that will not be used (again, grey, red, blue, pink, etc) and trace over the line-art changing slightly to the animation (you can also do the multiple sketches/line-arts trick here). Then remove the sketch (remember, color the entire canvas with the color used for the original line-art and color it back in with the transparent color. Again, if a few pixels of the first color remain recolor the canvas or line-art and color it transparent/the color used for the line-art. DO NOT COLOR THE LINE-ART IN TRANSPARENT. If you don't realize it this could destroy all of you work since the undo button will not work if the project editor is exited.). Remember to color your frames after the animation is finished!


Well, if you read all that, congrats, and I hope I helped!

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

Drawing walk cycles can be really hard. You can either search up the images of a cat walking, or (if you have a cat) take a slow motion video of it walking and study it, or even try to visualize a cat in your mind.

I do have a cat. 3 actually, one a “big kitten”, and the other two are cats.

Yo86 wrote:

please don't block spam or necropost, as it doesn't add to the topic and really isn't helpful.