So I've spent the last twenty minutes or so on trying to upload the pencil tests from my recent film I'm working on. Sadly, there is a "bug" in Blogger that will not allow me to upload videos. So instead of posting them, i"ll tell you how i appraocha scene with an individual character or when there are several characters in a shot.
When it comes to animating the three heroes, I then start to imagine myself as them seperatly and how they would appraoch a situation. Sean is the big, one-tracked minded burly one of the group. So I puff out my chest and act all broadly as i can be. Interms of myself, i would picture that being the "normal" one in the group, i just slightly eaggerate my actions. The most goofy thing about my character is the hair spikes. For Andrew's animation, I think of someone who just doesn't care about really anything.
In the case of the female lead in the film, Sarah is a loose free-flowing body, almost cloth like. You would think she's not even real for how she is animated. I really wanted to get the secondary action perfect in the case of her moving in a scene.
Lee is our dastardly villain in the picture. For when he plans his devious scheme on kidnapping our teacher, I picture all those old-time "Snidely Whiplash" characters from the past and how they use their whole body for specific poses when doing the cliche tying and monolouging.