Anuj Garg: Collections

Animation Reference

Unleash Your Fingers

Mime and Character Animation

The Relevance of Mime in Animation: Character Movement from Creative Talent Network on Vimeo.

Acting Reference

Transformers Workflow

Acting Reference

Mime

Reference From Daily Motion

Another Pencile Test By dailyMotion...and this one was nice..i liked the idea very much...hoping to try this in future.....

JBrowmns Pencil Test

Reference From Daily Motion

Monkey Reference From Daily Motion

Penguin Jump Reference

Daily Motion's Pencil Test

Reference

Here’s a small clip from The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford that’s a great example of thought process. In this shot Casey Affleck is coming to terms with the fact that he has to kill Jesse James (no its not a spoiler…its in the movie title haha) It’s awesome how you can so easily see the stages of his thought process.
1st – he starts nervous/jittery, his head is moving more, licking his lips, eyes darting.
2nd – he slows down a bit, starts to concentrate, eyes look down thinking about what must be done.
3rd – he reaches his decision, eyes slowly look up in an almost villainous way and then he stands up.
Like your parents said when you were growing up “think before you act” so when you’re animating make sure your characters are doing the same.

Reference

First off I wanted to show this clip in honor of Pete Postlethwaite who passed away a couple of Months ago. Steven Spielberg famously dubbed him the “best actor in the world,” which is pretty high props coming from Mr. Spielberg. Here’s a clip of his last role in The Town…if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it.

This is a perfect example of Secondary Action. This was a principle of animation I had a lot trouble understanding originally. It’s often confused with Overlapping Action. In this clip, his dialog with Ben Affleck is the main action of the scene, the “secondary action” is him cutting the roses. It’s an unrelated Secondary Action, as there is nothing in the dialog that mentions flowers, but it works perfectly with the scene, as it’s a slightly aggressive action which causes a lot of tension. Secondary Action is a great way to add some flavor to your scene because in life we tend to always be doing something when we talk.

Acting Reference #46 from Kyle on Vimeo.