These animations of a 3D lion model were the first 3D animations I ever created using a rig. You can watch an idle, a walk and a running animation. This task was the semester project of one of my courses in my second semester. 

I used an open source lion model to orientate myself on and retopologized it to get a low poly model. Afterwards, I made use of an autorig in Maya and started animating. Next to my other courses, this project took me around six weeks to finish. I had much fun with the task and felt more confident with animating, although it was sometimes challenging to keep the model in a realistic shape.