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Eyebrows - cartoony

Eyebrows - cartoony

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Eyebrows - cartoony

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- [Narrator] Now let's take a look at the eyebrows because the eyebrows interact with the eyes. Well, they frame the eye. So it's one thing to have control over the mask of the eyeball itself, but it's also important to have a good feeling for eyebrows and how they affect them. Best animator I ever worked with was a master of controlling eyebrows, and he really did some wonderful stuff with 'em. Put an enormous vitality into his acting. So here we have four good examples of pushing the eyebrows from their neutral position into both a down more of a neutral on this side but like a skeptical kind of frown on this side. Glowering here: pushing the entire muscle mass of the center of the head, clustering wrinkles down here. And then the opposite. This eye form will work for worried, concerned, sad, all kinds of emotional states. So if you can certainly master this kind of shape and this kind of shape, you'll be doing very well. And then this, of course, being a kind of a combination of…

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