For the two or three members of the Clock Crew that are actually interested in animating, I thought I'd share this. It was part of the most recent post on this nifty animation blog. (http://thinkinganimationbook.blogspot.com/)
The BBC Motion Gallery (http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/) is a massive archive of easy-access usable-quality stock video clips.
Need to know what the human body looks like when it throws a javelin? How about a slow motion basilisk lizard running on water?
They got you covered:
[FLASH]http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/flash/player.swf height=316 width=532 FlashVars='file=http://content.bbcmotiongallery.com/flashlarge/00/41/86/4186-8.flv&image=http://content.bbcmotiongallery.com/images/00/41/86/4186-8.jpg'[/FLASH]
[FLASH]http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/flash/player.swf height=316 width=532 FlashVars='file=http://content.bbcmotiongallery.com/flashlarge/00/22/54/2254-10.flv&image=http://content.bbcmotiongallery.com/images/22/54/2254-10.jpg'[/FLASH]
These aren't great examples or anything they're just the first two things I thought of. All you really need to know is it's basically a massive searchable archive of reference material.
Check it out: http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/
AAAA+++++++ EXCELLENT WOULD USE AGAIN
yeah im familiar with the bbc motion gallery
thanks for sharing the blog its interesting
I'm definitely going to use this at one point or another, thanks Slurps.
they probably have one of those things that automatically kicks out jerks I been meaning to put one on here