Walk Vid Ref

Endless Reference

Non Verbal Communication

Lauren O'connell Mouth shapes

check out the assymetrical mouth poses.

side note, I think her music's nice too

July Talk Lip Synch

check out the way this dude moves his mouth, awesome character

Strong emotions are riveting

Tips from Patrick Giusiano

EPIC Animation Tips from Patrick Giusiano on Vimeo.

Cameron Fielding on using Reference

Cameron Fielding did a talk at the pixel challenge conference a while back. Pretty interesting. 

  Cameron Fielding - Using reference from iAnimate on Vimeo.


what's important to look at (when looking at ref)

forget about "what pictures do I need to understand this" (don't worry about antic and follow thru poses and stuff)

walt stanchfield's books, you look at the model once and then not again and you try and draw what struck you as important from their pose

we have to apply this exact same idea to reference

go through the ref picking out still frames to describe the video (like you were going to make a photo comic book of the ref)

not looking for story poses or extremes, looking for the things that make you want to animate the shot

these are the poses you are going to milk later, you are going to try the hardest to preserve these when your polishing

drawing helps to dispel mystery:
draw your first impression poses, it reveals to yourself what it is you like about the pose, you'll find yourself drawing the same bit over and over

you're trying to find what it is that's a struggle to draw, the thing you can't quite get is what you love about it, it'll give you a solid understanding of what part to focus on and is important when you take it to 3D
 
* found on animator's resource (which I just found and is full of gold)

Nanalew face reference

 this video has awesome "ugly face" facial contortions on cute girls.

Dance Ref

man love that texture to the timing, great poses

BeatBox Facial Flesh

good reference for how much flex is in the face, which is the subtle stuff you have to put in to keep things from feeling plastic

Tom Waits - Raised Right Men

who moves like this?!   Tom Waits is awesome

Hands Vid Ref

hands can be supremely emotive but seem to not be tapped for their full potential. Here's an over the top video that may have some ideas





so far best animated example I have seen is from Florin Toma (who I can't find anything about)

Hands-FINAL from Florin Toma on Vimeo.

*
found at puppetvision.info blog

Elder Vid Ref

such a brief flit of light, this puff of life we have

FPS Russia

Awesome sauce. Um, we'll file this under reference, in case you ever need someone shooting,anything. Love his attitude and accent.

Impressions Jim Meskimen

Jim Meskimen





* found by Jesse Rignall @ 11second club

as Jesse pointed out, great for mouth shape, facial shapes, and head accent timing

Horse=Brick

horse cheat sheet by Emma Coats from her twitter

and since we're at it, Gurney had thrown up this cheat sheet from Spirit days (though I don't think he was involved)

High Heels

was animating a woman in high heels today

Angry Men (mostly)

*found on FloobyNooby

Choppin Brocoli

over the top, but still, lots of possibilities for stuff to throw into lipsynch or facial ticks

Boxers - Nicolai Howalt

PhotographerNicolai Howalt. Something about these images, taken right before and right after a match, some inarticulatable difference between the two shots. Somehow you can tell that some life was lived. Maybe it's just Kuleshov effect. Really interesting.


*found by flooby noob