Friday 18 January 2013

Character Performance

Once you get a basic grip on Disney's animation principles you can then start to think about animating the performance of a character. Got to show him/her thinking about the actions before they do them otherwise it won't be believable as a character performance. I had to create a 10-20 second performance based around a character at a bus stop. Here it is:



I didn't think I was being ambitous but every time I drew breakdowns and inbetweens I kept having to increase the timing so that the pacing was good. As a result there is still a lot I can add to this piece but in the 2 weeks we had, this was all I could manage.