Eadweard Muybridge was an English pioneer for his work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection, analysing animal and people movement frame by frame.
In class I analysed this short clip from A Goofy Movie, by screenshotting the frames that I considered relevant for the animation. Goofy appears like a elastic figure trying to get out of the car but bouncing back because of the security belt.
First Animation: walk cycle with some kind of emotion
I decided to do a happy walk and look for resources on Internet
Second Animation: Dramatic scene
to make this animation we had to record ourselves doing a “dramatic scene” and use it as a reference for the animation. Here’s the result
Character Design
In order to create a character that can ommunicate to the public, we should understand: the shapes it is made of, how it’s volume behavies, how it moves in the environment and its colours, why we chose those colour and what we want to say about its personality through them.
I chose to analyse Clancy, from Midnight gospel
Head composed by a triangle (hat) that dominates the character figure and the actual head that is a small circle but in proportion with the body.
TRIANGLE
The character , I think is in between being sharp and low intelligence, because during his journeys he meets characters and can keep up with conversations and ask questions about the episod topic, but at the same time he is learning from the other characters, trying to grow up in terms of self-aknowledgement
the CIRCLE can indicate he is a quite young character.
SQUARE BODY
In his main state the body can be inscribed in a rectangular shape, soft lines. He changes his body depending on the episode.
It is a solid body, infact Clancy has this body in his main World where his stability and regular life style is. He can be considered reliable and peacefull.
colours
To study the colour I used color.adobe.com to understand the which priciple was used for the colour choice.