Another week and another eye opening lecture. This time it was about design applied to animation by Mark Oftedal. He breaks design down to it's more basic elements. He shows how a simple triangle in frame can invoke different emotions depending on where it's placed and how its oriented. Then he adds a square to establish a relationship and shows how moving these around in the frame can change the relationship. Fascinating stuff! Then he describes to us a scene from Toy Story where Woody and Buzz are arguing. He shows us how their posture and relationship to each other in frame, subconsciously directs the viewers eye to the point of interest and invokes an emotional response. Wow, I had know idea that I was being manipulated like that. This lecture and the previous one about making cuts really opened my eyes into the world of manipulation. It's amazing what people know about how the brain reacts to visuals. They know exactly how to play with your mind and get a desired response.

Anywho....below I present to you my assignment. Once again you will find facial expression practice poses and for the first time I give to you my first finalled dialogue shot ever! Enjoy. It took many many weeks to get through the whole process and tomorrow I start it all over again. This time with a dialogue piece involving two characters.....yikes! This should be interesting. By the way, this next assignment is the last assignment of the term, so for the next 7 weeks I will bore you with revision after revision. Interestingly enough, this is the last assignment before I begin work on my first short film (Term 5 and 6). I'm actually looking forward to starting on my film now. I used to fear the coming of Term 5, but after all these short shots, I'm looking forward to being able to tell a proper story.