Monday 17 October 2016

Blink eye emotions



Quick animations that deal with animating emotions. First of all i animated tiredness or exhaustion. It was a difficult process as i had to find a way to make the character emotive just from it's head and eyes. I then animated it again but with a more suspicious, darting eye motion to the character. The timing has gotten much better here but there is still a slight issue on the timing if the head falling to the floor in the tired animation. I do feel that the animations do accurately manage to portray emotion though and it is easy to tell what the character is thinking in each animation. From a technical aspect, it was a nice rig to work with and fairly simplistic and even though the character has such basics, the subtle movements of the eyelids and the head makes it clear that little movements and body language all add majorly to animation and overall understanding of what a character is feeling. The graph editor helped me a lot here when it came to animating subtleties such as the slight bounce when the tired head bounces off the ground and the short sharp darting of the eyes in the suspicion animation. Overall though, this has been an animation that has helped me with a study into animation emotion and how it is portrayed. Hopefully, I can replicate this in my snake charmer animation.   

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