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03/23/12(Fri)15:18 No.783652>>783501
I would only do this if you didn't have any other resources available (which you often won't), and by other resources I mean reference from actors, etc. Your own face is great to look at to see how the features work when you perform different actions. The problem is that these emotions are not sincere as you are doing them on cue. The other problem is that, contrary to what Frank and Ollie liked to spout in "The Illusion of Life", an animator (or let's say in this case an artist) is NOT an actor. Unless you're also learning to become an actor, I doubt you're going to have the same skill an actor does at doing something that is at once unrealistic but appropriate and entertaining. Really, if what I were saying weren't true, Michael Bay might as well be one of the actors for the next Transformers film. The belief of an an artist being an actor is even more curious when you consider that the proportion to artists who also excel in acting is infinitesimal to artists when you have dance choreographers who have experience with dancing, and football coaches who have played football, and so on. When people believe what Frank and Ollie say, you get the odd, stunted "acting" you see in Disney's animated feature films. I'm bringing up animation, I know, but I think it's relevant to what you're doing.
In short, only look at your own face to see how the different features interact. If you can, watch movies or, even better, go out and go to a place where there's lots of people knocking about every day and draw them and how they cycle through expressions. |
