Reflections of the Body Acting Exercise

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I found this exercise quite hard. nevertheless, I’ve still done it thankfully. However, I think it’d be easier to understand what exactly I found hard to do, in order to focus on that more in future projects. Here’s what was difficult for me to do:

  • Simultaneously focusing on the body movement and animation principles.
  • Keeping the body structure the same throughout all the frames.
  • Animating different designs other than the bean body.

While writing, I thought about some solutions to these difficulties.

  1. Planning what to focus on during animation could help.
  2. Having a guide layer for the design to always go back to.
  3. Just practice more body shapes!

Here are the things that I learned during the exercise:

  • The sudden force of action causes the body to overshoot. (a.k.a Physics haha!)
  • Not every part of the body moves together, there’s always delay.
  • Be mindful of the body pose in order to create an interesting and understandable silhouette.