Just thought I'd chime in on this, since we never actually talked about this in regards to your assignments. We definitely don't want to discourage you from using video reference (we use it at work, it's a very useful tool in your arsenal), but we'd like you guys to think of ideas for this assignment and upcoming ones more creatively, and only when you need additional details to help sell your idea or help make it feel more physical and believable, use video reference in that fashion. Remember, reference should be used to help inform you about something you're animating. Trying to emulate exactly what you see in reference video can become problematic to you, unless you're trying to animate something virtually identical to the thing you found reference for.
At the end of the day, we're animators, not motion capture dudes, and bringing things to life in a unique and appealing way should always be the end goal of all our work.
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