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They talked about this in a previous ESOlive episode.
Bears aren't mounted in real life, but if they were, I don't think you'd be able to keep your arse on them if they're running and bouncing all over the place. Sort of like Horse jockeys, they don't actually sit on the horse. It would be impossible.
The only mounts with good animations at max speed are the Guars. Horses and Senches starts to have weird animations at top speed and the bears are totally "WTF"
yeah when you ride the horse its weird you take that jocky standing position but on a bear it probably looks more odd.
tbh the whole bear animation looks off to me when moving fast. it looks like it was designed as a trundle but they seem to speed up the animation proportionally. dont know why they couldnt have increased the distance of each stride slightly and animation speed to a lesser extant. As it is now it just reminds me of an old movie where they fast forward a car chase instead of filming an actual high speed chase.