Animating Character Turnarounds

[@The_Fourth_Queen]

This was SO helpful- the part that finally made everything click was when you said to imagine the hands as spheres orbiting the body- that was mind-blowing to me. Thank you so much for posting these on KZbin!

[@princessthyemis]

This is wonderful! I'm teaching myself animation and this is going on my saved playlist of videos I will use!

[@wolf1733]

can u share them it would help a lot

[@ella-xv1wh]

Would you be comfortable sharing the playlist?

[@PowWowChikaBowWow6902]

Mr James, I promise I’m early this time, but KZbin is being a butt so I can’t watch it right now

[@channingparker9431]

How could you have known.. This is exactly what I was gonna need?..😯

[@moderndayjames]

I've been keeping an eye on you

[@witoldniewiemski4955]

horizontally spinning canti is truly something to behold, great video as always!!!

[@bearynicebear]

admittedly I'm focused on drawing and painting right now, but these turn around exercises seem like they would be great practice for drawing. animating seems like good drawing practice in general since you get so much mileage in a short amount of time with really important stuff like shapes, movement, perspective, emotion, etc etc. sort of convincing myself to pick up animating while writing this, maybe replace some of the dry perspective exercises that I loath with some animated ones

[@moderndayjames]

Animation is honestly some of the best practices you can do for drawing. Even if it's not your end goal! Hope you give it a shot

[@mentalbreak]

I dont even want to learn animation but this a cool video thx :)

[@moderndayjames]

Well luckily this can help even if you just want to do character designs or illustrations. It's a super important skill for all drawing

[@outamotiv]

8:22 I'm only human after all-

[@Tooniq-Animation]

You deserve 2 million subscribers my friend

[@owenkegg3990]

I come to this channel, and I see Canti. Now I'm OBLIGATED to watch.

[@salvatoreocello]

0:53 NARUTO!!!! so clean 🧼

[@vitrusha1]

Thank you! Super helpful))

[@aztro.99]

new moderndayjames lets gooo

[@kingpen1179]

right on time jamesss

[@sethhat9620]

This is exactly what I needed

[@reneklassen]

I love Flcl

[@BenaiahArt]

I always have trouble with hair in complicated turnarounds. Anytips?

[@moderndayjames]

I should've addressed that in the video. It is a challenge but I would track the points of each hair shape like a ball rotating around a circle (I show that in the animation basics video)

[@BenaiahArt]

@@moderndayjames awesome! I’ll watch that video today! And this one was very helpful thank you.

[@Anpex.]

is it even possible to animate using no refences?

[@mirkoconte3121]

emh, yes I guess

[@moderndayjames]

it certainly is, but use as much reference as you want

[@maxlanzrhoads5460]

Not for a jedi

[@kossemoore3342]

Think about it this way. Professionals on a job would never do that. Because you want to be consistent and on model. and you want the experessions and movement to feel as believable as possible. Perfect example is any anime making of video youll see model sheets and often times animators will have mirrors so they can act into the mirrors and reference they're own movement. If you have a a unique idea you want to animate film yourself doing the movement. It will always look more believable.

[@echouniverse]

@@kossemoore3342thanks for this 🙏

[@Messerchmitt11B]

What's this 3D character turnaround tool you used in the video?

[@moderndayjames]

anatomy 360!

[@Messerchmitt11B]

@@moderndayjames Thanks for the reply, cheers man and awesome contents as always!

[@nero5052]

fooly cooly

[@BATMAN10N]

my brain just fried

[@vincikator3974]

Fooly cooly?

[@NerdIllustrates]

Very cool! What is the name of that 3D model software?

[@sloopinglevrai4807]

anatomy 360

[@thewonsler]

​@@sloopinglevrai4807 Thanks man

[@TammyJerkChicken]

Oh what’s this draw over software? Is it like sync sketch or is it an overlay?

[@mertolojis]

Isn't modeling it in blender and using grease pencil a more useful tool for 360 animation?

[@moderndayjames]

Yes, but the purpose of doing this exercise is so that you can get comfortable rotating characters in 2D. There's a lot of advantages to 2D animation in general which is why it's still used over 3D in many cases

[@HayZinChan]

wow..

[@dericoo]

1:36 can someone tell me the name of this app?

[@andreaswolfl8718]

Any chance you already found out? Would love to now the name as well.

[@VirtuaVillain]

@@andreaswolfl8718 Anatomy 360

[@andreaswolfl8718]

@@VirtuaVillain AMazing, thanks a ton

[@Gulpman1]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@teacupanimates]

im early but yt doesnt let me watch it huh?

[@Redding128]

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