IN this week we are planning out the animation to show the advanced body mechanics for the following five weeks by following the workflow below:
Here are a few of my notes:
Pantomime
-Mr Bean
-expressive bodily or facial movements of the performers
We want the character to be acting with the body:
(creating clear full body expression)
- Keep the animation clear and simple, use rules of third, composition and colours
- Lock the camera
Idea:
- If there is no primary idea, looking at YouTube
- Draw thumbnails
- Capturing the essence in my shot
- Pushing the pose, no tracing on my reference
- Needing a desire. Point a&b, what happened to both of them…
- About 5 seconds
- Showing the personality of the character
- No pure body mechanic
- adding more narrative, creating some anticipation, showing the contrast of the character
- entertaining
Here are my initial idea between the character, frog he wants to reach, and the mushroom as a problem between them.
Here are my combined reference video shot during in the class:
Here are my thumbnails and sketches created for the planning of it: