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Model sheets

Model sheets

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Model sheets

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- [Instructor] This is a pretty simple movie, and it's just to show you model sheets. In case, you know, you may be one of the newer recruits into the industry who maybe has never seen one of these because often if you're working on a production now you'll be given a 3D rig or a Flash Animate rig or a Harmony rig or some such, but it's a really good idea if a production can have a traditional equivalent to the model sheet if not one of these. So the model sheets were created in the traditional period to show the animators how to draw the characters fairly consistently. Now you wouldn't want to be slavishly copying the model sheets, but they're there to make sure that your basic proportions, your constructions are correct and the best ones will have turnarounds. So in this case you've got the A, B, C, D, and E angles or, you know, front-on, three-quarters, profile, and so on. Often you'll see the characters measured out in head heights so in this case, because of his unusual head top…

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