How could I go an entire module without mentioning Disney? Well, here's the Disney fix as I ran completely out of other animations that featured some form of reference to life drawing. I would've much rather talked about something else, but then I discovered that Disney are actually an appropriate example as they often used real life examples of actors and actresses (not being entirely politically correct here, but hey ho) posing for specific parts of the corresponding animation. For example, for Sleeping Beauty, (old but gold!) the actors would dress up in as accurate costumes as possible to the characters' in order to show how clothes gather and crease at certain joints, how fabric drops and flows depending on weight and structure, and how certain items being held affected the way a joint or limb moved due to weight and form.
Disney really thought hard in many of their films on how to be as realistic and psychically accurate to real life as they could, despite the wacky storylines and obvious takes on Grimm's tales... Anyway, I feel that using reference as detailed and well thought as this is a good way to help with the process of animating and is by far not a means of cheating as if you were to simply guess how a fabric moved or a limb swished in a particular way, you may make mistakes that cannot be easily rectified. Using reference is a good way of learning as the more you draw, the better you remember and if a certain pose or material or weather condition and so forth (the list is endless) is worked with for long enough, it becomes drilled in your mind and eventually the process will be quicker and easier.
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