Expressive Techniques for Character Animation

Overview

“Now that we have the different emotions of our character reflected on his face, we are going to work on his body expressions.”

In this video lesson Memé Candia addresses the topic: Expression Sheet 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Techniques for Character Animation. Turn your characters into actors packed with emotion and create animated scenes full of life.

Partial transcription of the video

“Now we will do the same but with the whole body. Let's draw our character in different poses using photos as reference. When taking full-body reference photos. i recommend wearing form-fitting clothes to better outline the silhouette. Try to choose a location with a white background or good contrast to clearly define the And with good lighting too. If your character is handling an object. it's better not to pretend to hold your hand. but to find something that resembles the object the character has and actually hold it. This will result in a more realistic pose. because our posture will rea...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Techniques for Character Animation

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 20 lessons (3h 32m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Areas

  Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Drawing