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seagull landing on sloped roof – animation reference

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seagull landing on sloped roof animation reference

As part of my collecting animation reference I filmed a seagull landing and then lifting off on a sloped roof of our hotel in close up and in slow motion.   Animation reference highlights include landing and breaking at great speed seeing its wings flay around folding its wings sliding and adjusting as it slipped […]

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seagull pecking – animation reference

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As part of my collecting animation, FX and Crowd sim reference I managed to film animation reference for a seagull on the roof of our hotel.  I had a low angle tight angle and captured its movements (pecking, scratching itself, ambient looking around, fluffing feathers) in slow motion too – which is really fascinating to […]

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Fowl eating seeds – animation reference

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fowl animation reference

As part of my collecting animation, FX and Crowd sim reference I filmed some flamingo animation reference but the fowl was actually more interesting to film. The start point of any good piece of FX or animation is to get good reference footage, study the FX or animation reference and understand what it is you […]

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