Character and Narrative: Acting for Animation

In this weeks seminar we talked about the importance of body language and how it is used within animation to help portray, not only the personality of a character, but also the narrative. Body language helps to tell the story even without any sound or dialogue, so it is important that the characters have the appropriate body language. A really good example of this is the Big Hero 6 character test.

Although there is no sound to the animation and there are no other characters present within each scene, it is very clear what the character is doing and the character's personality is also very clear. I need to keep in mind the importance of using references when figuring out how my character will move and behave, as it will help me to capture the right body language and help to tell a clearer story of my character.