Pick one of the following expressions and apply it to a flour sack:
sad – happy – proud – shy – anxious – frightened – tired – confused – surprised – excited
Use the principles we covered in our bouncing ball exercises to give your object personality. NO eyes, mouth, or other facials features allowed – the expression must be conveyed through movement.
Draw a few key poses before starting to animate to get familiar with the sack’s design (you can use paper or your favorite drawing app).
Act out the emotion yourself and take note of your body language – which parts of your body change when you are sad/shy/tired etc? Are your movements fast, slow, tentative, assured etc.?
As usual, apply the 12 principles of animation.
Submission
When you have completed your flour sack animation, save it as an fla and export it as a video file. Upload your video to Vimeo or YouTube. Add a post to the Flour Sack Discussion Board. State the emotion you were trying to express in your post, and if you wish, what means you chose to show it.
- Blackboard: upload the fla file and the link to the post on the discussion board
- OpenLab: add a post to your portfolio, then add a post to the Flour Sack discussion board
Due October 1.
