GISELLE ESCOBEDO
Year 2 Course Website / Animation.VFX
Mind map planning
Wanting to research something that was within the genre of animation, I knew that I couldn’t study animation as a whole, the genre being far too broad to be considered specialist. While mind-mapping ideas, I thought about the possibility of the cartooning genre within animation, but still that was too broad. After brainstorming some more ideas, I concluded that I was really interested in specifically the expressions and movement used in a number of cartoons I admire. So for my study, I will be looking into facial expressions and exaggerated movement in cartoons and other styles of animation.
HARVARD REFERENCES
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Glebas, F., (2013) The Animator’s Eye Adding Life to Animation with Timing, layout, Design, Colour and Sound. Milton Park, Abington, Oxfordshire: Focal Press.
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Boadway-Masson, D., (2016) Facial Animation 101, animationmentor. Accessed On: 16 December 2019, Available from: https://blog.animationmentor.com/facial-animation-101/
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Coron, T., (2019) Understand Disney's 12 principles of animation, creativebloq. Accessed On: 8th January 2020, Avaliable from: https://www.creativebloq.com/advice/understand-the-12-principles-of-animation
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Fleischer, M., (1930) Swing you sinners!, Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNttqN1wUMYS, Accessed On: 13th January 2020
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Disney, W., (1935) The Cookie Carnival. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRB2YlQOSBI, Accessed On: 13th January 2020
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Snow White (1938) Directed by David Hand. Accessed on: 29th January 2020. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpbgqIBCVCM
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Plympton, B., (1987) Your Face. Available from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpej3a7AhGI, Accessed on: 9th January 2020
Research
Looking into expression and the portrayal of it through animation, the seven dwarfs from Disney's 'Snow White' are perfect examples of this. Each expression is clear for each character, both the expressions and the actions performed by each character giving them separate personalities. In the Snow White clip where each of the dwarfs are introduced by Snow White guessing their names based upon their actions.
The 1987 animation created by Bill Plympton is a short animated music video for a song created specifically for the animation.
The reason I added this into my research is because I like all the different facial expressions and poses that the character in the video goes through and displays. Its an abstract piece that beings many different emotions and expressions into one animation, giving it life, despite the fact that it is a series of hand drawings on paper.
Not only the animation, but the unusual slowed down audio present in the background only adds to the strangeness of the entire music video. For my own FMP I would like to incorporate the sort of strangeness that this video has captured, in my opinion, very well.