Video reference is an essential part of any modern animators toolkit. Often students seem to be under the incorrect impression that it is somehow 'cheating' or being 'lazy' to reference video while they are animating... Not at all!
Using reference simply helps you get the basic beats figgured out faster and let you get to the real meat of animating, which are all of the judgements you make to go beyond that reference and the reality of a movement.
It's also great for those times where you have to animate a behaviour or action you have not encountered before, how do you expect to be able to create somthing you dont even have a memory reference to call upon... answer: you go find some footage, or better yet, grab a camera and film your own - that way you get to feel the movement and personality too!
Here are two great video reference resource sites, courtesy of an ex-student. Thanks Matthew!
https://vimeo.com/groups/aniref
http://www.referencereference.com/
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