Character Movement

I also found this book on character movement very helpful :

Character Movement continued...

Another book I looked at was:

Character Movement

Along with the character's mouth movements, I want to look at the character's bady movements too. So I went to the library and found a few books, which I found helpful, so I am off to try a few of these techniques out now.

Sound

I was trying to do a little research on sound as I will be concentrating on that next too and found this great article in the "Vacuum" paper.

It tells of some of the wierd and wonderful things they to use to create sound effects in films.

My favourite was the "strangling of a leather wallet filled with credit cards to create convincingly gristly sounds of the exorcism scene" in The Exorcist. How on earth do they discover these things.

So I am looking forward to trying a few of these out for myself.

Character's Mouth

I was looking through this book for my typography project when I cam across a great piece on "Lanuage: the spoken system".

It shows a great example of how animator Nick Park created a set of interchangeable mouths to recreate the lip shapes of human speech for Wallace.

I think this would be a great idea for me if I chose to do the cutout character. I would not have to keep changing the whole character everytime he talked, I could just add on the appropriate mouth to his face.

There was also an example of humans talking and how their mouth changes when using different vowels and consonants.

So I thought this woul be useful information to know as I will be looking at my charter's talking parts and mouth movements next.

Workflow.

I have put my workflow onto a large poster so I can stick it up above my work space, so I can tick off what I have done as I go along.

Walking Man Animation.

I then took photos of the pictures I had drawn for the flipbook animation to try out stop motion using this style. The quality is not great as I rushed it and did not tidy up any of the photos in photoshop. I just imported the photos straight into windows movie maker. I will not rush my final piece in the same way, I just wanted to see quickly how this concept might look so I would have more choices for my final piece.