Animated Tails are coming

BAH! You people and your facts!

I would like to posit though that MOST birds just hop around. They don't really use bipedal locomotion. All they need is the large talon at the base to keep them steady. Ostriches are a big exception, I think. How do they deal with it?

(also roadrunners)

My sister's husband always says about Ranma, "That is a very confused girl. Obviously. Because I'm attracted to her. So, a very confused girl."



And IIFC, usually if you have a stable digitigrade biped, such as a bird, the foot has an opposable toe to do the job of the heel. Also, typically the body is balanced with its center of gravity over the legs, but reclining, often with a tail for even better balance. This is more stable than our upright posture.

As Samuel said, the thigh is tucked up against the body, and allows the leg to be under the center of gravity.

There's this guy...

"The Arrival" and "Xavier: Regnegade Angel" are the only examples I can think of with a truly "backwards knee".

Plenty of people have made homemade or professional rigs to mimic digitigrade legs for humanoid characters.

As someone who has 4 Cockatiels and a Quaker Parrot in his house, the larger birds do walk instead of hop but it is much more of a waddling motion than what we think of as walking.

Very few birds have feet optimized for running and walking. Most of them are adapted for perching on branches and climbing sheer surfaces.

The ostrich would disagree with you, being the fastest two-legged animal on land. Even humans when sprinting tend to run on their toes or balls of their feet. There's generally not of heel-to-ground contact during a full out sprint.

So [Ostrich Run] will be the power from the Mutant booster pack?

Key words: very few birds. Most would trip over their own front toes if they tried to run and I've seen mine try.

Ostriches aren't the fastest. What about chocobos?!

Also what's the fastest two-legged animal on water?

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Probably a duck.
What, he said ON water not in.

The Basilisk Lizard?

In water is a different story...

I knew someone would mention that lizard.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

BABs confirms upcoming "running on water" animation...

This is the perfect time to bring this up.... Why can't super speeders run on water? Huh? huh? You can't hide from me on here! I'll find keep finding you til you anwser! hahahahaha!

Broken Voltage (War Mace / Electric Armor Brute) Main Toon

Nice find. But even though he ran across the water on 2 legs I think he's still classed as a 4 legged animal.

That would look very disturbing! Haha

Well, if you are going to bring up Chocobos, then Golden Chocobos, of course...

We now have confirmation BaBs is a furry, who else would watch that but someone with fur on the brain

Naw, Teioh's black chocobo is the fastest. In fact his stats are always higher than yours no matter what! Even if you have max stamina of 999, his will be 1100-1200!

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

I see your water and raise you 2 different questions.
What is the fastest two-legged animal is space?
What is the fastest two-legged animal on space?

Oh and you beat me too it. I was going to post that too.

That's easy!

The Flash!

Only, if he existed in CoH, he'd have to swim, instead!

Well, seeing these movies, I can definitely see where you guys got the inspiration to make the digitigrade we currently have in the game, because those stilts look a lot like them. Cool, I didn't know so many people were making these

One slight point of note, though, is that the people in these movies hold their legs slightly differently than what our characters do. Their upper legs are bent forward, with their knees bent back. In our digitigrade legs, the upper leg is straight down. Of course, I realise this is most likely to avoid having to make new animations for just one single set of legs, which is why they follow regular legs so much. Still, it explains why the feet aren't vertical like I'd thought they should be, and ours are STILL better than the ones in Champions Online, which just look like someone took a T-square to your shins

By the way, the finished werewolf costume is just... Wow! This thing does NOT look like it should be able to exist and move like it does. It looks like it should be CGI or something, but to see this existing as actually real, even as a slightly cheesy costume... When I saw it turn its head to look at the camera, that startled me a bit. This is cool!

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.