Ribcages: Mass Conception

This is something rather becoming intuitive for those artists who physically get their hands on the torso of a dog and/or of a cat regularly, but would be quite groundbreaking for others to realize otherwise: the primary axis of a quadrupeds’ ribcage is different from that of a human’s.

Casually speaking, note how our ribcages are more from-side-to-side when looking from above, versus theirs are more from-top-to-bottom when looking from ahead; i.e. analyzing both in the transverse plane, the primary axis of our ribcage cross-section is lateral - lateral, while the primary axis of their ribcage cross-section is dorsal - ventral.