Planning
This piece was one a particularly struggled with at first, as I struggled to collect the reference footage. Originally the idea was that I would acting frightened or upset at being yelled at, however my acting talents were not up to snuff to pull this off convincingly. Instead with decided to take on a much more sarcastic route, with me instead finding the reason for being told off laughable.
Research
For research I had to look into facial expression and what they can portray in a short amount of time. I found an interesting article (linked below) in the article the author Shawn Kelly mentions that its important to see this face as one cohesive unit. What this means is that when creating emotions and faces, different parts of the face will affect other parts. For example when we smile, its important to close the eyes slightly as well, especially from the bottom in order to make it look natural.
Development work
Even once I had the footage it proved difficult to animate. I was worried I would not be able to pull it off convincingly however after a few trial and error attempts I was able to make the animation rather exaggerated, making the character seem like more of a caricature of a person rather than how an actual person would react to this situation if they were indifferent to getting told off.
With an over the top smugness and adding actions that were not in the reference footage, eye and head rolls and dismissing arm movements I had hoped to show the progression of someone finding it humorous and then getting frustrated at the end as they’re backed in to a corner.
Reflection
At the beginning of this task I found it quite difficult at first and as a result, I put off doing i, however after working out my block out and camera angels and I found it much easier. I think I could’ve done more with the overall body language of the character, maybe positioned the camera to portray the character in more of position of power with a low angle shot etc.
Acting in animation 