In the 'Character and Narrative' module we got given a study task to do, which was all about the body language, acting and how important it is to animation. We started off the session by having a presentation on how animation needs reference so the animators can portray emotion in their animations, they do this by acting out what they want and use the footage to help understand human emotion and body language can be a big part of exaggerating emotions. The presentation showed us footages of Charlie Chaplin's silent movies, and other black and white films which uses body language to portray emotion because there was no sound at the time. This was really useful to me because it taught me how using the body to exaggerate emotion in animation can be a big part of experiencing the film/animation.
For the study task we had to pose in multiple positions which show emotion, then using the demo character we got last session create the same emotion in maya. This was really fun to do because not only did we have to think about the positions we had to think about the lighting and the angles of the camera, this was so that we could intensify the emotions even more. I feel like I've done a good job portraying the emotions into the 3D characters, but I would of liked it better if I had just changed the colour or material of the character so that it looks more entertaining to the eye. I'd also like to thank Max and Matt for being my models because they gave me great reference material to work with.
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