Character and Narrative: Strike a Pose

We were assigned a smaller brief to help us learn the skills we needed to animate with Maya. Referencing as we've already established is an incredibly important part of animating, and this task was the first opportunity this year for us to do some of our own referencing.

We were given a list of emotions and then we could choose five of these emotions to then model a character on in Maya. Decision making has never been one of my skills so I felt it would be far easier to just act out every one of the emotions and then just pick from the photos. And since I was working with Matt on the Telling Tales brief anyway we felt it would just be easier to take turns striking a pose, below are the photos we took courtesy of James...