Good video reference can make a body mechanics shot much easier to animate. In this free recorded workshop, Framestore Animator Richard Fournier shares his best practices for shooting reference and turning it into clear key poses.
In a live demo, Richard walks through how he decides which poses to focus on, gets his key poses into the scene, and blocks the action to get the basic timing down. You’ll see a straightforward approach you can use on your own body mechanics shots.
Watch the full recording above.
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About Richard
Richard Fournier has been a professional animator since 2005 and is an animator at Framestore. He graduated from Animation Mentor and was hired by Blue Sky Studios, where he spent nearly 13 years working on films such as Spies in Disguise, The Peanuts Movie, Rio, and Ice Age. More recently he has worked on Forgotten Island, Kung Fu Panda 4, and Trolls Band Together at DreamWorks Animation. Richard mentors students in the Body Mechanics and Advanced Body Mechanics courses at Animation Mentor.
You can watch Richard’s reel and learn more about his work here.
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