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Animation exercise—Expression
Overview In this lesson, we have learned the role and importance of emoticons in animation and how to add emoticons to animated characters. Then we chose a theme to create our own character expressions. Theory 1. How to make facial acting Creating natural and credible emotions is necessary to create believable animation. Facial expressions can…
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Animation exercise—Body Language
Overview In this workshop, we focused on learning the importance of body language in animation production and tried to make a brief animation about body language. Relevant Theory What Is Body Language? Body language refers to the nonverbal signals that we use to communicate. These nonverbal signals make up a huge part of daily communication.…
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Visit ACMI Museum
ACMI (formerly the Australian Centre for the Moving Image) is Australia’s national Museum of Film, TV, Video Games, Digital Culture and art. As an animation major, this is definitely my most recommended Melbourne museum to visit. Here you can see how media have developed and become what they are today step by step. ACMI uses…
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Visit Melbourn Zoo
Today I visited Melbourne Zoo, recorded some very interesting plants and animals and drew some sketches. Here I visited Thai elephants and observed how elephants and their babies use their flexible trunks to feed and play. Elephants live together in groups except for the breeding young male elephant. It is said that they will move…
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Physical Theater Workshop
Overview Select an animal of your choice and observe its movements. Try to imitate the way it walks, paying attention to the rhythm, speed, and direction of its movements. Once you have imitated the animal’s walk, take some time to sketch a picture of it, using your imagination to emphasize the unique features that you…
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Life drawing 10
Today’s life drawing model is so amazing and crazy. I love his weird pose. And I’m getting better at drawing these. All I need to do is keep practicing and practicing.
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Animation exercise — Animal walk and run
Overview In this lesson, we mainly studied the body structure of three different types of categories of locomotion based on the way they use their feet in walking and running. Plantigrade – Animals walking on their whole foot or hand. Digitigrade – Animals walking on their toes and fingers. Unguligrade – Animals walking on their…
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Acting for animation 4
Overview In the last acting lesson, we started by reviewing what we had done in the previous lesson, expressing different emotions and body language by changing the way different parts of the body move. Then learn different ways to convey emotions and act out different levels of emotions. 1. Break down First of all, we…
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Life drawing 8
Today’s life drawing model has brought us a lot of fighting poses, such as bow drawing, archery, shield lifting, boxing and so on. These poses can also be used in war games and animations.
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