Acting for Animation

Aaron talks about creating believable characters through different emotions.

Learn the importance to understand deeply who your character is.

Understand what’s going on with your character without a dialogue.

Aaron explains one of his most used animation approaches.

Elaborate one more “pose to pose animation” exercise

Find an attitude for your character and then sitting down and animating straight ahead.

Go through all the process in real time, from the recording of the dialogue through thumbnailing and connecting the animation.

Watch how Aaron lays his thumbnails out on the timeline.

Put connective tissue inbetween each of the thumbnails you have done.

Buff up the rough look of your animation, adding details while pushing the emotions.

Do a quick re-cap and acquire tips to add connective tissue to your animation.

Look over and identify a correct conection between all your animation.

Redraw your thumbnails as sketches, the goal is to make them nice and pretty.

Play with the expressions and make sure every frame stays really solid from drawing to drawing.

Learn that, with practice, some of your drawings will not need a redesign.

Synchronize the animation and dialogue, focusing atenttion in the mouth of your character.

Aaron checks that the emotions in the animation are the ones he wants to express.

Review the latest details and pieces to be drawn.

Review once more, and add the small details necessaries to be sure your animation doesn’t lack drawings.

Aaron reminds you the more you do animation, the better you get.