Cat

A striped cartoon cat on four legs, drawn side-on, with a long tail, pointed ears, whiskers, and a face that talks.

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Who it is

The cat is the dog's quieter cousin: the same four-legged plan, a slimmer body, stripes, pointed ears and whiskers. It faces right in its side view, and has a front view and a back view drawn from the same bones, so it can turn to look at you. Cats in cartoons are often proud or mischievous, and the slow moves suit it: a long tail swish, a careful walk, a dignified bow.

Its body

The cat has a torso with the head at the front and a long tail at the back, a chain of four segments so it can curl. Its ears are pointed, short and each in one piece, and its four legs, two at the back and two at the front, each have a leg, a shin and a foot, the paw, named in the list of its bones below as back left, back right, front left and front right. As with the dog, the front legs answer to a move's arm channels and the front paws act as its hands, so it raises a front paw for a wave. A cat cannot reach its hips with its paws, and a move that asks for that leaves the paws planted.

Making it yours

In the studio you can change the fur, the muzzle-and-paws and the stripe colours, choose a body shape and a look, and stretch it. In the creator you can change its tail, its ears or its colours, or start from it to build another animal: a fox, a tiger, a lion with a mane of hair. The parts keep their names, so every move still plays.

Good moves to start with

Whip tail with a slower lag gives the long, curling swish of a cat watching something. Walk in and Walk back and forth show its four-legged walk, and Look around turns it from side to front to back. The list below has every move that suits the cat.

Its bones

• torso
  • tail
    • tail segment 2
      • tail segment 3
        • tail segment 4
  • back left leg
    • back left shin
      • back left foot
  • back right leg
    • back right shin
      • back right foot
  • front left leg
    • front left shin
      • front left foot
  • front right leg
    • front right shin
      • front right foot
  • head
    • snout
    • nose
    • left ear
    • right ear

Moves that suit it

Worked out by the build, not typed. A move is listed when, played on this character, it moves the parts the move is about: the kinds of part it moves on most of the characters that have them (arms, wings or front legs; legs; tails; ears; hair). A move about the whole body suits every character. The small words say what moves.

• Alarmed whole body, front legs
• Angry shake whole body
• Announce whole body
• Annoyed whole body
• Bounce whole body, front legs
• Bow turns, body, head, front legs, tail
• Breathe whole body
• Cower whole body, front legs
• Crawl in whole body, front legs, back legs
• Fidget whole body
• Floppy hop whole body, tail
• Fly in whole body
• Fly out whole body
• Groove whole body, front legs, back legs
• Happy wag whole body, head, tail
• Hop whole body
• Hop across whole body
• Jump for joy whole body, front legs
• Look around turns
• Pace whole body, front legs, back legs
• Peck whole body
• Point whole body, front legs
• Proud whole body, front legs, back legs
• Puff up whole body
• Rise up whole body, front legs
• Run in whole body, front legs
• Run off and back whole body, front legs
• Sad whole body
• Slide in whole body
• Slump whole body
• Sway whole body, front legs
• Talk whole body, front legs, tail
• Walk back and forth whole body, front legs, back legs
• Walk in whole body, front legs, back legs
• Walk on and off whole body, front legs, back legs
• Wave and look head, front legs
• Wave hello whole body, front legs
• Whip tail whole body, tail

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