THUMBNAILS

Thumbnails mostly help us making some strong poses.Especially when you are using pose-to-pose method of animation, you need few strong poses.Here thumbnails helps you as a reference to your poses.You draw them to make your poses strong,clear and more dynamic.It is not that you stick to your thumbnails tightly, but then you could do so if you are very much convinced with that.But you should not get too much attached to your thumbnails,but use them as basic reference as a stage of exploration i.e experimenting on the desired pose you want, on a paper, check out different poses as it is the fast,easy and economical way of expressing and experimenting.I usually play more with my pencil and paper before getting on to the machine.But i will not settle on things until i get on the PC ,as things may act different when i' am there and even my mind might need some freedom to experiment. Keithlango advises not to become a slave to your thumbnails.He says "thumbs are great servants ,but hard masters".(THESE ARE THE WORDS OF RAGZ)
i am saying..in my scribles which is the best one showing 'power,weight,energy,balance& giving confidence to me..those are my thumbnails..