Wow Week 9 started..
This week we had Shawn Kelly talked to us about Exaggeration. How
exaggeration is Important in every animation?. Exaggeration in used in every
animation even in realistic animation. Exaggeration not only consider as
squashing and stretching in animation but exaggeration of Ideas, Personality,
Poses, weight, Timing etc..
Exaggeration is the Most
Important aspect if animation without it your animation will be boring. You
need to exaggerate your animation to make the audience the Goal. Our animation
is finally a 2d animation when it is shown on the screen so we need to
exaggerate our Ideas, poses, timing, weight etc. to make the audience What is
going on the Scene and to keep them interested. Even if you’re doing realistic
animation need to exaggerate it. Always Push your animation more even when you
think it looks ok push it more and see how it looks. We should exaggerate what we see in our
reference and just copy them frame by frame to make it interesting and not
boring. Exaggerate it to make sure the audience would be able to read it
clearly. You should exaggerate your timing also and not just copy them from what
it is in the reference. If there is a hold in the reference increase the timing
of the hold etc.
Exaggeration making
doesn’t mean making pushing something sometime you can also pull it back to
make sure the audience can read clearly what’s going on in the scene. For
example you can make the entire background black and white and just have the
character and the objects the character interacts with in color this lead the
audience eye directly to character and help the scene. This is also considers
as exaggeration. If the character is Sad make him sadder. If he is happy make
him happier.
But don’t exaggerate to
much that it distracts the audience from the goal of the scene. You should
select properly What you are exaggerating. Too much of exaggeration can also
confuse the audience. Like if you want to show that the character is picking up
a heavy bag make the bag super heavy. But remember to stay in the boundaries.
Even if you’re doing a wacky cartoony animation there should be a feeling of
weight in it.
For this week’s assignment we need to polish our vanilla week which we
submitted as blocking in the last week and create a concern pose. I felt that
this week was a it hard than the other. Specially the concern pose because
concern are close to Boring, thinking , worried poses. So I need to make sure
that my pose showed concern properly. But I Probably made this mistake the
first pose which I created was reading as much concern to me so I had to Redo a
new pose again. And the on the walks the knee’s where making me Crazy. I was
thinking to start over again but said that was looking great.. and don’t have
to change anything in it. But anyways guys Here’s this week assignment that I
submitted… Can’t wait to see What chad says about it.. :D
