CrazySnep 

Bad news: I'm even crazier than before. 😎

Let's say we want to wag a tail. Like this:

How to do this? Just follow these simple steps:

1. Draw a base tail shape. Put it into a precomp.

2. Draw all inner details of the tail. Put it into another precomp.

3. Draw a Bezier line to use as a bone.

4. Calculate (u,v) coordinates of every vertex (x,y) and handle in all tail shapes, where u is t from [0,1] so that the distance between (x,y) and bone(t) is the smallest, and v is the d so that the distance between (x,y) and the normal at bone(t) multiplied by d and used as offset from bone(t) is smallest.

5. Cache the collection of (u,v) points in an array. Also remember the base length of the bone.

How was this done? As usual, by relying on inadequate complexity. 😎 80% of the look comes from the tail.

I used a tail bent to one side as state 1, flipped to the opposite as reference for state 5 (as in, I copied it). Then I moved all anchors to match the state 5. I got somewhat straight, but short tail in the middle. To get state 3, I stretched and rearranged anchors into adequate position. Transition 1-3-5 now looked like a triangle (path transformations always have linear path interpolation), so I stretched and fixed middle states 2 and 4.

Now, that's just the base gray shape. After copy-pasting layers and applying strokes, I added black and white strokes.

I decided to make my first snow leopard video sticker something fun, like I did with the snow leopard tail chain sticker for the vector-animated snow leopard sticker pack. A video of a snow leopard performing crazy wall jumping to get one meter down seemed like a great source.

Unfortunately, the source was an ancient video of atrocious quality (240x320 at 15 fps, to be precise, with tiny Telegram stickers being 512x512, for reference), with most reposts being a pixelated upscaled mess. So...

1. I removed duplicate frames using FFMPEG and presereved original frame numbers.

It's close to impossible to perfectly synchronize a sticker chain on Telegram. This is what full videos are for!

Now that's what I call a vertical video!

Newest addition to the Snow Leopard sticker pack!