Slight Change in Project

Slight Change in Project

My project has slightly altered since yesterday after the mentor meetings. My project is now going to revolve more around [car]toon animation (looney tunes, Hannah-Barbera). I will still research into character performance and how to create a believable character performance and how to bring a character to life but I will just be focusing more on the style of toon. Yesterday when talking with Brian, I told him about a meeting I had early in semester one with Lynn where she commented that based on what she could remember of my animations, I had good exaggerated poses but my characters didn't quite look alive. This was the basis of my project. Brian then asked if we could analyse one of my animations that Lynn would have been talking about. So we did that and he starting talking about toon animation and how I might want to look into that style instead. 

So I will still look into how to create a believable character performance but I will be doing this in toon style. I also asked Brian how believable character performance could actually relate to toon animation and he said that it wasn't necessarily about breathing and blinking but more about a performance where the character can be seen thinking, it's about those moments in between actions sometimes when a character is thinking that make them convincing.

Summary:

My project has changed slightly; I will now work more on a toon style of animation while still looking into creating believable character performances.