Patreon Video - Episode 24 - Photo References
Added 2020-12-30 13:56:45 +0000 UTCHope you are all well!
Crazy how fast this year went. Strange year for sure, and hopefully we have a less chaotic one coming up.
Anyway! Here is a new video!
This time I talk about references. I think they should be used as much as possible. For backgrounds, for character acting, for details or whatever you are making. Don't be afraid to use references! My main advice would be to shoot your own ones as you then own all the right to the content.
I will for sure make an episode on shooting my own references for my character acting in the future. But like I show you in this video my backgrounds are almost all referenced and snatched out of photos I have on my phone. I take an excessive amount of photos with my phone when I am outside. Anything that could potentially work as a shot in my films I will capture. It actually makes you look at nature and the world in quite a interesting way.
I think as creators of things we observe our surroundings in different ways. We might look at how water is flowing in a more studying way than others and trying to understand how to replicate these things in out art. I have found myself looking at tree bark and thinking how that could be reproduced procedurally in 3D.
When it comes to capturing my own background references, I really like the thought of having the film I'm making set in a specific place, even though its animated. It obviously doesn't have to be 100 percent accurate with reality but taking the references from the area I imagine it taking place in will also make it more believable. And when someone that is familiar with the landscape and culture of that place watches it they can enjoy that even more. At least I would like to think so :).
