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Experimental practical

Since my chosen specialist study is the research into facial expressions and movement within cartoons, I decided to draw some facial expressions myself, highlighting some of the basic expressions. I drew these in Photoshop.

A small animation created while experimenting with the first principle of animation, squash and stretch. I applied this principle to the moon within the animation, it essentially being a bouncing ball.

 

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The background

Bouncing of the moon without the background

I added sound effects accordingly and put it all together using both Photoshop and Premiere pro.

Bill Plympton's 'Your Face'

Inspired partly by Bill Plymptons hand drawn animation 'Your Face', I created this short animation, using the template of the facial expressions I had drawn earlier. I used the timeline in Photoshop and made the face go through a cycle of odd and unusual expressions.

Once again looking at facial expression and the movement that comes with it, I made this short loop of animation. Mainly to practice head movement, I am very happy with how this turned out as a part of my experimental research. I used Adobe Photoshop to get all the poses in the right order and sketch everything out, and then lined and coloured using Procreate.

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