Cat in Question

So at out last meeting, we came to the conclusion the cougar is out of place. The setting of our film leans heavily towards a European style village, and as such, the cat will not work. We also decided having a fully mechanical creature would better serve the purpose of our story.

But we are still tossing around the idea of having the mechanical creation we come up with be based loosely on an animal. The animal would have to native to Europe, something the creator (mechanic) would take inspiration from.

Now I have come to accept that the cat will probably go, but I was still curious about what the feline population is like in Europe. After all, it never hurts to look into possible ways of salvaging old work, so long trying to save it does not skew your perspective. The most important factor is how well it serves the story after all.

I found one interesting possibility. A lynx. Here are a couple different breads and where they originate from.

Iberian Lynx




I really like this guy. He has that really menacing look to him that I feel gives him a lot of character. This breed is on its way to extinction and lives in Spain.

Carpathian Lynx

There home is in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.

Eurasian Lyxn

pretty close relative to the Carpathian Lynx from what I can tell.

Now of course that doesn't take out the difficulty of animating a quadruped, but in my opinion, a quadruped would be a whole lot easier than something that say moves like a spider. Of course 2 legs would be the easiest to animate, but from a design standpoint it is the most difficult to create something unique.

We'll talk more, Saturday at ten. Everyone try to bring in 3 different designs.