Frightened Expession

Using my fabulous acting skills again, I decided to try to portray a frightened look. Which was a more noticeable difference then being sad. With wide eyes and a wide mouth in disbelief that the jack in the box just popped up by itself.

Sad Expressions

I decided to examine my own face, to help science *cough*. I looked at what my face would look like if I was sad, I attempted to keep it subtle. But they mostly included my facial features turning down.

Exploring Expression

I decided to look into different facial expressions, and how detailed and undetailed they are. With how much emotion they can portray, if you take the two examples I have found. ABOVE, is a rather detailed drawing of a womans expressions which are very good. But below, there are very simple examples of facial expression which I am very impressed with. I've always loved the idea of 'simplicity', It lets me realise that the facial feature on my character don't have to be amazingly detailed for the audience to understand what she's feeling.

BELOW, is an example of how I feel I would want my character to look, very simple she seems to have quits a malleable face but it's not too over the top.

Anime is an example to me of keeping facial emotions simple but exaggerated, they have very set attributes in anime to resemble the emotions they're portraying which is pretty fascinating.

Straight Jackets

I decided to stick to the psychiatric story line that I essentially decided from the beginning, because of this I decided to research a few different styles of straight jackets for my main character to wear. They're obviously all rather plain looking, but some have buckles that I favour. That I would no doubt use in my final piece. 

Project Proposal

I've decided to stick to 2D for my final animation, this is due to time and creative choice. I feel like I can create both characters (I.E based off my puppet and docor who I will base off the doctors from Alice in Wonderland)the target audience will be my age group, as at this stage I'm just trying to get to grips with what my favourite animation style is. Be it 2D, 3D, stop motion etc. I want to create my animation on flash, and have a pretty sketchy look, since the story is about the characters mental health.

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Had the idea to do stop motion

Because I wanted to use my puppet to create a stop motion animated sequence for my project, But decided not to, I felt like I should carry on using her design but just carry it on to a different form of media. To which I believe I will be making 2D. It will be interesting to see her in a different media.