Hey Dave! I'm going to try to do a study at lease 3 times a week or more.
Here's the opening to American Beauty. Don't know what i was trying to learn here, but i really like this opening. It totally introduces this family perfectly, so i thought it would be fun!!! and it was.
Went out and bought a nice pen to board and gesture with, and MAN DOES IT HELP!!!! i love drawing this way, it's so freeing and it's helped me with drawing in pencil too! so THANKS!
tell me if it's still stiff or if i still need to work on gesture the boards.
Had a little bit of a problem with facial expressions with this one cause the acting was so subtle i didn't know how to translate it too well. Guess i should just exaggerate?
Question..
1. How do you approach thumbnailing when the characters are so small on the screen, and the backgrounds are so detailed( do you continue to repeatedly draw the background in ever board?). how do you show facial expressions on a character that is basically a stick figure?
Do you just make the body do all the talking?
THANKS DAVE!!!
these are nice!
ReplyDeletegetting better. remember to stay loose with the body language and gesture of the body. your acting is nice with the heads but remember to sketch the body with the same consistency of line and movement.
You dont have to redraw all the backgrounds but with detailed thumbnails you can just draw larger ones allowing yourself the room to draw acting.
always concentrate on the face and the acting, if it's a stick figure do your best to make the expression read. even if it's a simply drawn expression there are iconic emotions that can be conveys simply i.e. preston blair faces but again this is where acting study comes into play and gesture drawing as well.
the more you sketch the more you can pull from your resources in your brain.
as far as subtle acting goes;
ReplyDeleteyou choose the overriding emotion of the shot and draw that. Thumbnails do not have to show the animation in a shot. they need to convey the story. So A and B poses don't need to be drawn necessarily jut the dominant emotion of the shot. subtlety in acting and movement will come in final boards