Extreme gestures

I was fairly happy with may extreme gestures although I know that when I start getting into a bit more detail my extremes may change a bit. It was good though to progress using this method as you can really see a more overview of how your animation is going to turn out.

Throughout my animation I wanted to stay true to my character descriptions for volrant and leonardo. Therefore it was important that I followed the line of action that helped display their personality. As you can see with Volrant, I wanted him to look very evil and devious this was done through the line of action bent over as shown in this extreme pose. It was the opposite for leonardo as he is very bold and brave I need his gesture to to be very upright as shown in pose. With these line of actions it helps the readability for the audience to distinguish been evil and good.




I still feel I am displaying a good posture with respect to line of action, however for these gestures to read well to the audience I do feel there needs to be a bit more work done to refine the gestures. This is particuarly the case with Volrant as I think his gesture looks a bit too stiff in this frame. I may play around with the postures around these extreme location, eg. move volrant down before he comes up to make it read a bit more realistic.



This gestures doesn't look to good, but once I place more attention on the hands and facial gestures it will look alot better. In this sequence the line of action I don't think is that important however when she is in the background I have to make sure she is very nice and upright as she is a princess. Her movements muse be very innocent as well.


This gesture abides by similar line of action and readability as I discribed in the first sequence.



Similar to previous gesture, however I don't like the way I have done his head as it looks a bit silly because it is bent to far back. This can easily be fixed.