Roughing it out

After discussions with project leaders, the movement has gone back to the drawing board as they desired a more zebra movement than horse movement. The difficulty presents itself when you wish to understand a zebra's movement in more depth but cannot obtain this information clearly from footage that's from a handheld camera and with no one having really done a proper zebra cycle before, it's hard to know exactly how they gallop. Even looking at The Lion King, the zebras don't really move like zebras but have more of a horse's gallop and even look more like horses.

Zebras from The Lion King

I studied live footage further and have attempted to replicate the same movement in the rough gallop cycle below. I've noticed zebras seem to almost bounce their hind legs instead of each hind leg moving independently. By this I mean once both legs are in suspension behind the back end, they seem to come together and move forward together before one leg takes the lead again.

 

Below is live footage I used to study the gallop.