Recording Reference Videos for Animation

I've recently discovered that recording reference videos really helps with animating a character. Usually I'm not confident enough to perform in front of a camera but after performing the actions a few times, I did get into it and I found it’s actually pretty fun. 

After taking around ten different videos, I then go through each of them and decide which one conveys the performance best.

Unfortunately I didn't have my DSLR at hand to record the videos in high quality so I had to use the camera on my phone. Although not the best in quality, I did manage to capture the performance pretty well.

When it comes to animating, I will first use Adobe Premiere to scrub through each of the videos and analyse each frame before deciding which ones I can use as the starting point for key frames. After this is done, I will then start animating.