ANIMATION REFERENCE in 4 easy STEPS

[@harveynewman]

I will show you all the details I take in the 4 steps necessary to take reference as tight as possible. Hope this helps, and that you have fun watching it. Please drop a comment below with your thoughts and/or requests.

[@ewawojtaszek5504]

[@FrostbiteCinematics]

This is great! Loving this animation series :D GG on 500+ Subscribers! A quick question. Do you guys actually use Maya to animate at work (DICE), or do you something in Frostbite for that and use Maya just for tutorials / personal projects?

[@harveynewman]

Just seen this now. We use Maya and Motionbuilder to animate. ;) As always thanks for the support, here and on social.

[@pranaykumar6648]

Harvey could you make a video on your journey as animator it would be a great motivation for people starting out.

[@harveynewman]

Hey Pranay, thanks for watching, that's a great sugestion. And something I would love to do. Will try to plan something for next year for sure. Happy Holidays

[@685akuma]

Thanks dude tryna do a simplea nimation and this was very informative

[@harveynewman]

Glad it helps Akuma. Wishing you the best of luck in your animation journey!

[@benalicaustics5419]

thank you

[@harveynewman]

Thanks for watching.

[@How2Animate]

Great video Harvey, going to have to give keyframe MP a try, looks really good

[@harveynewman]

Thanks a lot James. Please do, is so DOPE. Only scratched the surface in this video.

[@PrettyAnimations]

Yo I’m loving this channel man. Continue making them!

[@harveynewman]

Hey man, thanks a lot. You channel looks like so much fun. How do you make your anims? Really entertaining stuff.

[@PrettyAnimations]

Harvey Newman thanks a lot man! I use autodesk maya basically. World/sets are all taken out of the game Minecraft. Models are made in Maya. Sometimes everything is made in maya.

[@harveynewman]

It's a dope achievement man. Love the look of it all. Your subscriber count is crazy, a statement of how much people love your stuff. I am subscribing and looking forward to more. :)

[@PrettyAnimations]

Harvey Newman thanks a lot man! I love them. Just love reading/writing stories and animating them, even if the recent ones didn’t get as much views hah but I still love it. I will definitely always watch this channel and your videos for sure! Love learning new stuff.

[@harveynewman]

I appreciate that man, and I hope you get a lot from these videos. And hope to get a subscriber count as big as yours one day. ;)

[@VinodPatel-tn1hf]

best video on how to shoot and edit animation reference :)

[@revanth-ravi]

Really very helpful. Thanks, Harvey.

[@harveynewman]

Thanks for the feedback and for watching Revanth.

[@mjparent222]

Thank you, great video.

[@davidvince4275]

500 Subs!! Absolute BOSS! bruh. Gotta say your making animation look hella accessible. Best I can come up with is "move it around till it looks right" lol

[@harveynewman]

Thanks Dave, coming from you means a lot bruh! And nah man, you are way better than that. and you have thought me a lot.

[@mypa_pf]

thank you, im currently using pivot animator and do a weird style where i double frame important frames, and then do a bunch of recovery frames

[@harveynewman]

Nice one Quentin. All animators have different styles as long as the end result is what you want it’s all good.

[@silv3r761]

Im using pivot animator too

[@elie4946]

Thank u very much!

[@Torbis]

Great video! I enjoyed it very much, learned a bit too :)

[@harveynewman]

Hey Torbis. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it and got a bit of knowledge to go!!

[@47humza]

It's really really good info video

[@harveynewman]

Hey Hamza, you've asked for a more hands on, so these tips and tricks are for people like you. Keep it tuned for more.

[@47humza]

@@harveynewman thanks, I have a request could you make a video on namespace because when I transfer animation into unity I get namespace issue much time.

[@BattlefrontStrategy]

Very interesting and informative, another great video!

[@harveynewman]

Thanks a lot man, hope it helps you in your future animation Star Wars work. Looking forward to it.

[@BattlefrontStrategy]

Harvey Newman it definitely helped, although I’m not sure what the response will be if I film myself in public with a lightsaber and a cape 😳

[@harveynewman]

@@BattlefrontStrategy Well I for one would definately be interested in seeing that. :) We do that type of reference at work all the time...minus the cape.

[@BattlefrontStrategy]

Harvey Newman haha well I live in an area of mostly conservative pensioners so this could provide some shock value. I can’t imagine how the physics of a cape will react in certain situations so yes, the cape is mandatory and I will look fabulous :)

[@harveynewman]

@@BattlefrontStrategy LOL! I have no doubt man, I have no doubt!

[@tattoogodofficial]

Thanks

[@harveynewman]

Thanks for watching Jithin.

[@vickmure]

Thank you...

[@harveynewman]

Thank YOU Vickk for watching. ;)

[@vickmure]

@@harveynewman You are welcome, I just uploaded an animation after checking your tips..kindly share what you think about the animation : )

[@yojay_buggin5393]

Is this like kinda rotoscoping

[@harveynewman]

Rotoscoping is copying the realistic motion one to one. This is reference, the goal here is not to copy but to understand the basic motion to then later push the motion to make it more entertaining and fun to watch.

[@gangasonar5137]

Hi sir, would request can you make a video on animating creature using bouncing ball... (layout and blocking ) thankyou

[@EvaSeyeux]

Another great video! Thanks for those precious tips Harvey! :D

[@harveynewman]

Thanks for watching and the continuous support Eva. DOPE!!!!

[@abedd370]

I have a question. If the scene is too looney and clumsy, do you shoot a reference and move rapidly mimicking the cartoony feeling? Or do you shoot the reference at a regular speed and then adjust the speed of the animation on keyframes?

[@harveynewman]

Good question. You'd shoot the reference at a regular speed and adjust it in Animation. You want to make the most out of the reference at first and only once you have the essence of the reference nailed, you would push the animation to make it more cartoony. Hope that makes sense.

[@abedd370]

@@harveynewman Perfect. Thank you Harvey.

[@ever6]

Nice video editing I can tell you put some time into this i.e gather vid ref, editing etc.. kudos so do you plan on maybe getting keyframe pro in the future or continue to stick with this workflow? I mean keyframe MP by itself is excellent and some studios have a license. I do like the photo part I never tried that workflow cool stuff. Thanks DC

[@harveynewman]

Thanks Darrel. I already have the pro, it’s actually the one I am using in the video. The developer is just the one person doing a lot of work. So only right to support. I use the pro features on the Brad Bird video I made to draw over the video. It’s dope ish.

[@beeloobhai9200]

Can I ask a personal question , which area in London is this?, This place looks so cool !

[@harveynewman]

Hey Bee. This was actually filmed in Sweden, when I was living there. :) it is a very cool place.

[@beeloobhai9200]

@@harveynewman oh great 👍👌

[@Pataflex]

Great stuff Harvey, I just discovered your channel and it's a gold mine. Just curious for this video, which software are you using for editing ?

[@harveynewman]

Thanks a lot and welcome to the channel. I’m using Final Cut Pro X...best editing software in the world. ;)

[@Pataflex]

@@harveynewman Seems rather intuitive to use yes, thank you

[@koldobika_]

I see you use Mac, but do you use the default apps or do you download them? If so, are they free? Good video as always

[@harveynewman]

Ola Iñaki. Thanks for watching. When you say the default apps. Are you talking about Maya or Mac?

[@koldobika_]

I’m talking about Mac, I don’t use it a lot, but in the drawings I saw you used Photoshop, but is that a preinstaled app or did you had to download it? Also, Maya has a free trial but then you have to pay for a anual subscription right? And which is the difference between both versions? And finally does the “improved media player” (I can’t remember it’s name right now) is free? I was reading an article about concept arts in the Battlefront 2 website and I notice they use Maya as an example Greetings from Mexico, thanks for responding and sorry for the delay!

[@harveynewman]

No worries Inaki. I installed Photoshop, and Maya unfortunately there's no other way around it, but if you use it pretty much on a daily basis is a worthy expensive. Or at least that's what I think. Keyframe MP the media player has a trial but again you have to pay for it, the reason why is because it's made by a small developer so all money goes to keep up the great work, and improving things. Any other questions let me know. ;)

[@koldobika_]

Ok, thanks for responding. See you next week!