Inching Around

So anyway, as great as those videos were, they were of things with legs walking. And as great as legs are, my character doesn't have them. Bummer, I know right?

I've had a pretty strong idea of how I want Uhrr to move, which is basically like a caterpillar, but when you YouTube caterpillars walking, you get stuff like this:

and this:

Which as cute as it looks, isn't how I want Uhrr moving at all.

So I thought long and hard about what those thingies are called that move in that way. And good ol' brain was like, "Hey. Hey. Remember inchworms? And how you thought they were just the American word for caterpillars? Hey. Hey. YouTube them." And so I did. And lo and behold, something up there had put two and two together.

Oh it is sooo cute. Also, I don't know if this is mean or not. I think it is, but whatever. That's how inchworm's role, yo. Don't mess with them:

And so finally I could stop acting it out with my finger and being all, "in that caterpillar-y way, you know?" because I actually knew what it was called. And it wasn't a caterpillar.

So here's my original sketch-up of my walk cycle, in far too few steps:



//Note: I should also say, I looked into the character McDuff, from this old ABC show called Johnson and Friends, because she's a concertina, which is pretty much the shape Uhrr is, but upon further research, she just slides along the floor, rather than making any concertina-type movements at all, which was a bit of a let down. Here's a picture of her so you know what I'm talking about. I won't post any videos because they're all just episodes from Johnson and Friends, and are, like I said - useless.

She's the one on the left, if you didn't already figure that out.