Sniff around

An animal on four legs sniffs around: its nose goes down to the ground and it sniffs one way, then the other, round and round.

Use it in a cartoon Change it in the move maker The pack file (JSON)

What it is for

A dog finding where a smell goes, an animal passing the time. It is what Look around, Squirrel idle and Dismiss play on four legs.

The principle it shows: a dog looks with its nose

Where a person looks round with the eyes, a dog looks with its nose: the head goes down from the neck until the nose is near the ground, and it turns one way and the other (the head's twist) while the body stays put.

The program, line by line

when it starts
  show the side view
  at the same time:
    — 1:
      glide head 0, part:head~twist 0 over 0 s
      glide head 30, part:head~twist 0 over 0.4 s
    — 2:
      glide neck 0 over 0 s
      glide neck 25 over 0.4 s
    — 3:
      glide torso 0 over 0 s
      glide torso -8 over 0.4 s
    — 4:
      glide tail 0 over 0 s
      glide tail 15 over 0.4 s
  forever:
    at the same time:
      — 1:
        glide head 30, part:head~twist 0 over 0 s
        glide head 34, part:head~twist 30 over 0.6 s
        glide head 30, part:head~twist -30 over 0.6 s
        glide head 30, part:head~twist 0 over 0.6 s
      — 2:
        glide neck 25 over 0 s
      — 3:
        glide torso -8 over 0 s
      — 4:
        glide tail 15 over 0 s

0 s — head 0, neck 0, torso 0, tail 0.
0.4 s — head 30 twist 0, neck 25, torso -8, tail 15.
1 s — head 34 twist 30.
1.6 s — head 30 twist -30.
2.2 s — head 30 twist 0.

Try this

Take 1 s over its first change instead of 0.6 s: a slower sniff around.
In the program: ramp · over 0.6 → 1
Turn the head to 44.2 instead of 34: a bigger sniff around.
In the program: ramp · to.part:head 34 → 44.2

How it differs from the others

Head tilt keeps the head up and tilts it over; Look around is the person's version, eyes up.

Works on

The two in the film above, and what the move turns on each: worked out by the build, which plays the move on each body and checks what moves. Nobody types this table.
Who	Moves?	What moves
Sunny (one of the six people)	yes	turns, body, head, arms
Grump (an animal on four legs)	yes	body, head, front legs, tail, ears

c4c:beh:sniff_around · version 1.0.0 · c4c-free · by Jabbertoon