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[Fallsburg]

Hopefully, this will be useful to someone:

Endless Reference reference animations - They have videos of various activities (various walks, kicks, etc.) with multiple people (young adult female, athletic male, large male, etc.) in various formats (front view, side view, with reference grid, slow motion, etc.). 

[Kramlack]

Dumping this in here for reference because I lost track of it recently;

[unsilentwill]

Eadweard Muybridge
For a bit more study, the master of motion. Photos of jumping, fighting, up/down stairs, horses, elephants in frame by frame detail to see which muscles are doing what.

But those videos look great once you know what you're looking for.

[Derek]

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/49023.htm

[Fallsburg]

For a bit more study, the master of motion. Photos of jumping, fighting, up/down stairs, horses, elephants in frame by frame detail to see which muscles are doing what.

But those videos look great once you know what you're looking for.

That's some great stuff there.

[Ninja Dodo]

I find these quite useful for video reference:

http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com
http://www.gettyimages.com/footage
http://www.corbismotion.com/
http://www.framepool.com/home/
http://www.artbeats.com/

Great for figuring out body mechanics and effects.

For subtle body language and expressions you're better off observing people in real life, or in film. I would not use other animation for reference because it just becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.

[Ninja Dodo]

Also:

http://www.brendanbody.co.uk/flight_tutorial/index.html (analysis of flight)

http://www.stuartsumida.com/ANIMATION/SumidaAnimationTalks.htm (scroll down for PDFs on anatomy for animation)

[marquet]

Based on this base http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/upload/12framerun.gif

I made this 2

I think this need a fix




 

[JasonPickering]

I did not know this existed. so here are 2 suggestions that have helped me greatly with all my 3D and 2D animations they are not really reference but should help with all the above stuff.

1. Learn to use reference video. Take videos of yourself walking, running, jumping anything. and try and use a program that lets you go frame by frame. Quicktime is a great example. you can even switch the timer to a frame count to see how many frames it takes to get from pose to pose and what the body is doing at every key pose.

2. If you use Chrome download this. Its a Youtube downloader. I use it to grab reference of Youtube videos in a format you can open in quicktime to thumb through frame by frame. It has been a tremendous help.

[Ninja Dodo]

If you really want to go deep on the reference analysis, try this:

http://www.kinovea.org/en/?page_id=4


It's made for athletes, but it's perfect for animation too. I don't actually use this one much as it's kinda overkill - you can get most info by just doing some thumbnails based on video - but if you really want to study a particular bit of motion, this is a good tool.

[clockwrk_routine]

this deserves a place it's amazing


who's yoh yoshinari?  it's from his artbook C79

and also:



michio mihara

[moi]

who's yoh yoshinari?  it's from his artbook C79

Wow, very nice, it reminds me a bit of lurk's work.
Although the dude's move is a bit strange and he'll probably get his bone broken if he tries that agianst moi

[Ninja Dodo]

Since this seems to be turning into an animation examples thread I will post these:

Andreas Deja (animator of Scar, Gaston, Jafar, etc)

Living Lines Library (pencil animation and concept art from various studios)

Though I stand by my statement that using other people's animation as a starting point is unwise. It's useful for learning about technique, not for understanding how movement works. You end up copying the good ideas, but also the mistakes.

Use good animation as inspiration, not as reference.

[clockwrk_routine]

word and golly

http://zidoukodomoyouji.tumblr.com/post/19674335933/twitpic-share-photos-and-videos-on-twitter

[Xion]

http://sketchadventure.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-make-animated-gifs-brief.html


edit:

[blinkok]

http://vimeo.com/groups/nudiecutie/videos/52069544

[Götz]

I know the thread has been without movement lately, but I hope this is useful to someone

http://framexframe.tumblr.com/

http://www.penciltestdepot.com/

[Ninja Dodo]

More reference:

http://www.referencereference.com/index.html

http://www.scott-eaton.com/category/bodies-in-motion

[siskavard]

Sorry if this has been posted already, but there are some really great walk & run and much more real life reference here

http://www.youtube.com/user/endlessreference

perfect for making run and walk cycles!

[Ninja Dodo]

It's the first post. I guess this thread is over now that it has come full circle.