What did I learn from all this?

The following is an explanation of somethings I learnt in this unit and a note on how I've adpted them in my project:

1) Pose to Pose and Straight Forward Animation

I learnt that once you've narrowed down on your key poses it's then easy to work on the rest of the animation. You've won half the battle if you've got this sorted. From here onwards its more about working on the details. Let me warn you... it takes IMMENSE amount of patience JUST to decide on that! But it's lots of fun trying to observe other characters and then to adapt their mannerisms to your own.

2) Line of Action

Since it was a really short clip that I picked to animate, there wasn't much movement among the characters. Hence the line of action was quite static. i was concentrating more on the gestures, postures, body language and the facial expressions. I've tried to convey most of the message through the movement of the character's upper body. Movement of arms and raising the shoulder etc.

3) Composition of Frames

I first created an animatic with the composition of frames. This was I clearly defined what I wanted my audience to see in each section of the dialogue. Once that was sorted the other information in each frame was to be imparted through the body language and expression of the movement of the character itself. I followed the RULE OF THIRDS in most of my composition.

4) Readability

I tried to adapt poses that were clear and not complicated. Once I'd fix on a key frame i'd make sure if the action was clear if the pose was expressive in its silhoutte state. If it wasn't then I'd change the pose to soemthing more simple and clear as that is what is easy to animate and people udnerstand what's going on.