Friday, December 03, 2004
commitment
Eric Darnell ( co-director of Madagascar) was talking about commitment by an actor to a gesture. If the actor is not completely commited to a gesture it looks like - well just that - uncommited. As animators we have a pick a gesture an go with it. Every single attibute at our disposal - composition, squash, stretch, eyes, line of action, timing etc should go into reinforce that gesture. Commitment to communicate a specific idea and to do it in a specific way.
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I have alot of problems with this actually. I'm glad to see other people do as well. I do all the thumbnails and poses and the somewhere half way into animation i go... "wait, was that the BEST way that could have been done?... Is there a cleaner way of doing that." The result, as you could expect is half hearted acting.
the only way I have found to battle this is to take each pose and think it out. "is this the best 'surpries' take?" etc, etc, at the blocking stage. Now I block my shots 3 - 4 diffrent ways just so when I animate there are no "questions".
I'm curious to know how you deal with this.
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