I started out in the Laika exhibit, which solved the similar problem - that of using motionless objects to produce motion. There was an entire wall of characters' heads, each just slightly different from the on before. When they want a character to speak, they snap a frame with his mouth closed, then swap out that head for one with his mouth just a tad open and snap another frame, then another with a slightly more open mouth, and so on and so on. I very briefly considered drawing a long line of heads, each blending ever so slightly into the next, but that was too much for me. So, instead, I did one of the feet of the monster skeleton, articulating its joints in a multi-exposure.
Then I went downstairs to take a look at the exhibit of animal prints. In many cases, the animals portrayed were motionless. But many were in motion, and the artists had to show that somehow. With the horses, though, they could use bunched muscles and the flow of the mane and tail to show it. And so I copied details of a couple of prints, mimicking what the artists had done.
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