JP Sans, talk about subtext

The (physical)movement will not gonna make your character come to life.

The subtext and personality is the actual thing bring your character to life. how the character think, feel in each moment. how it moves base on his personality

example: if you see your friend walk for far away which looks like a small silhouette. you know that is your friend, caz he has certain walk

away know what character thinking


About human's conversation:
7% spoken words
93% nonverbal(include body language, eye contact, gesture, facial expression, mannerisms)

so when animator take a pice of dieolage it only has 7% of it, 93% is what you need to put in

subtext:
what do you give it visually which is the missing 93% part? It shows what character thinking, what personally this person is?



good exercise:
take a rig, to animate 3 characters (personalty) in it
don't can't anything of the rig. don't add anything on it. just the same rig




workflow:

ask what is the subtext if the director didn't mention
subtext drive everything

write the dialogue, note the pause

don't animate what the word is, find the subtext of each word

ex:
please get (pause) out

"embrace"
please-->OMG
get out-->don't look at me

forget the dialogue(the word)
just thinking about them, and shoot the ref base on "OMG, don't look at me"

sketching it out different ideas before shoot ref

when shooting the ref, forget sketch, the dialogue
just think about the subtext and act base on it

shooting ref as much as you can.

this process just like a windup car
when you planning you are winding. take out the bads idea, and do the acting, and if the ref, not works keep shooting. if the subtext not work. back to fix it.

when you find all the answer you can just jump into the software and start to the word. and the confidence will drive you to go fast



he do pose to pose

find the beats pose(like beats board)
breakdown

add briefly facial expression

don't playback as much
it's help animator to really thinking about the timing of the animation. thinking about the rhythm of it, and let the computer fix your rhythm. don't find it out find you are do the animation. It will make you confure and lose in the program.

the first time do playback is I have all my key and few main breakdowns.
It briefly includes the rhythm of the animation.

polishing form the root>and go out



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