Reference is one of the most invaluable recourses available to animators today, all of the worlds best animators use reference. Some mediums that could be considered reference would be photography, a comic book, live action movies, animations, and videos of yourself or a friend. Anything that can be carefully analyzed for movement can be a reference!
When using reference it is important to find the perfect piece for what you want to recreate. Gathering an understanding of the mechanics of what you are studying. Also do not copy it 100%. Adapt off of it, apply principles of animation, and the elements of art to create the your work.
This article is really cool, it provides different useful references. This is really relative to animation because it can help out animators by showing how necessary it is for an animator to adapt. In all the time I have been animating, I've only used reference once. I don't know if it is that I am to lazy to look up reference, maybe I didn't know where to go. I think now I am going to incorporate some reference into my animations from now on in seeing that the best animator use it, and that this article is providing some unique references i will surely use reference more often.
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