[Weekly Theme 9] Animal Behavior
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Hi all,
If everyone is still happy to stick to the animal theme, since locomotion has been done it might be good to try studying animal behavior. So pick a reference where an animal is doing something (interacting with an object, searching for something.. etc) and animating a short scene based on that.
As usual I'm happy for anyone to give an alternate theme, I'm just chucking this one out there.
edit: Animal (and other) reference sites
http://www.gettyimages.ca/ (my fav.)
http://www.gettyimages.ca/bbcmotiongallery?Language=en-GB (use to be bbc motion)
http://www.greenscreenanimals.com/
http://footage.framepool.com/en/home/
http://www.pond5.com/
If everyone is still happy to stick to the animal theme, since locomotion has been done it might be good to try studying animal behavior. So pick a reference where an animal is doing something (interacting with an object, searching for something.. etc) and animating a short scene based on that.
As usual I'm happy for anyone to give an alternate theme, I'm just chucking this one out there.
edit: Animal (and other) reference sites
http://www.gettyimages.ca/ (my fav.)
http://www.gettyimages.ca/bbcmotiongallery?Language=en-GB (use to be bbc motion)
http://www.greenscreenanimals.com/
http://footage.framepool.com/en/home/
http://www.pond5.com/
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