So, first we were given a sound bite to animate to but first of all we needed a character. Onto Designing!
I have no intention of animating this much detail at the moment, it would take too long and be too difficult to keep consistency, Therefore I had to simplify it, which also meant adding expressions and mouth shapes which we would relate to sounding vowels and continuances.
I’m planning to use the first half of the sound bite bite, but it had to make sense, as there are two separate voices and I have only one character, so, I gave her a hand puppet.
I think this design will be my testing character, so she has no personality except the ones I need for learning and testing techniques for animation.
I’m finding the squash and stretch idea difficult to apply to her, but that’s also to so with where to place the mouth for which emotion while remaining in line with the jaw. I have found myself referring to "the animation survival kit" by Richard William because it has a really helpful; section on mouth movements and shapes in relations to words and how they sound. So far I have only just started making the frames for line test. Lots of work to do!
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