Had some fun creating a more elaborate background than I normally do for my scraps! :D

One of the things I consider the most in judging how my feet and paws are doing is a particular pose in which the paw (as if lifted from the ground) is parallel to the rest of the foot, or nearly so. This lets me test how the "heel" of the foot (more correctly, the ball of foot) deforms and weather it preserve the bottom pad of the paw without any nasty creasing issues. Further more I evaluate the deformation of the parts where the digits begin to diverge from the foot, but before they become their own shape. These lumps that give the impression of the bone beneath the flesh must not be too thin or bend in awkward ways.

Both of these are rather challenging and I haven't quite perfected them. The overall length of the foot still feels a bit too long when in this pose as well. The height of the paws crest also make the foot look kind of thin, even though the overall shape of the foot and paw digits look alright when the paw is planted flat, angled closer to perpendicular with the foot. I may still want to adjust the foot some more.

You can see more clearly here, than in the other scraps, that the legs are bit too thin.

Since they were not the primary focus of this progress scrap, the hips have poor weight painting and we have little more than a basic ambient occlusion pass for coloring.