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Acting patterns

Acting patterns

From the course: Animation Foundations: Gesture

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Acting patterns

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- Now I'd like to talk a little bit about acting patterns. When I first started in animation, I would show a scene in dailies, and the director would say "I like you acting, but the pattern is not working for me." I didn't know what this meant for a long time. But what it really means is the musicality of the gesture, or maybe a pattern on my head. So if I shake my head and I say, "Oh no, no, no, no, no, that's just not gonna work," my nose goes back and forth, and then comes up and around and then settles. So I'd be tracking the nose arc, and that would be a pattern. Another pattern might be track on the wrists or the elbows, as I go from here to there, I'm tracking how the pattern goes. Or if it's really close in, the pattern is tighter. So acting patterns are a really interesting way of looking at your work, and tracking, in essence, the musicality, texture and timing of the gestures in acting you're doing. Let's take a look with some of these clips of the actors. Now, what's great…

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