But specifically the scene where the animated mammoth also known as "Manny" looks at caveman drawings and sees a small tragic story play out before him. For example to this here is a short clip from the film, and a short clip from my animation.
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| My Animation |
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| Ice Age (2002) |
As you can see I had my animation inspired from this scene in this movie.
I looked up information on tigers and bucks and watched videos in order to help me study on their movement and actions, behaviours and personality.
I looked up diagrams of their anatomy to help me understand the movement better too like this:
After I looked up diagrams and anatomy to help me with the knowledge of movement for my animals I then started to search more in depth of the animators and how I could use their techniques and understanding to my own creation.
I looked at animators such as;
Looking at this animator I used their technique on deers to try further improve my own.
Inspiration
For inspiration its always been animals as my main source, I have often watched documentaries on animals found it fascinating how animals move and the way their body looks. I have however also looked at different animations from different animators, some of them are just simple animators from youtube that I enjoy watching such as;
I loved this animator as they often do motion comics like this and their style is something I have always wished to achieve, their animation is very smooth and consistent too, so I have often used this animator as a source of inspiration.
I have often looked at another animator whose very heavily inspired by wolves, so majority of her work is wolves, such as little stories she's done like this;
Unfortunately this animator retired several years ago, so their work is a bit outdated now, but I enjoyed the characters work and progress, I watched her improve and it helped me to think that maybe I could improve myself, and the inspiration came from that.
