Story:
According to the movie “Farewell My Concubine”, the line “No! You said good life. Missing a second is not a lifetime.” The background of this line is a traditional drama. The two actors playing YuJi and Bawang fail to escape the play in time. They promise to be each other’s soul mates, but one has the idea of betrayal. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make non-surface emotions can be expressed through body language in animation.
Preparatory action
The prep is when a person leans forward with their upper body on the wall, leaning forward with their head against it. The prep helps prepare the audience for what is going to happen. When used, it has the effect of making the actions of objects more realistic. Animation without preliminary work will make the action look awkward and not naturally angry.
Inertial action
1: When the figure supports her body away from the wall, I want her arms to follow the body to have a soothing, smooth rhythm.
When the line says “no”, show your displeasure by throwing your arms
3: Disappointed turn the head, showing a feeling of grievance, similar to a feeling of anger
4: The character’s emotions begin to get excited, and the hand follows the line and accuses his partner of betrayal.
5: The climax of the action, the character’s emotional peak, the body with the arms raised high and fast fall.
6: The character leans back on the wall and bows his head in sorrow
Reference video
Project 2
Week 1 During the first week of Project 2, I continued to work on the character drafts and scene improvements. George and I agreed that I needed to rework my dragon’s design and develop a series of signature moves and a unique look for the main character. Michael also gave me some suggestions, such as how it reaches out to hold its whiskers when it is happy. George told me to try and simplify the rigging part of the dragon so that it could perhaps float in the air to reduce the number of complex animation frames. I am very grateful to them for giving me this advice, which is a detail that I tend to struggle with as a new animator.
Also, for the scenes, as I realized during the production of my Previs Video last semester, I had only completed the basic modelling of my main house. But I’m unsatisfied with the house, so I may have to recreate it. In my scene layout, the design of the main objects of the scene, the grass, the blue sky and the river, is not perfect. As well as this, I have to think about how to integrate the modelling of the house into my scene,