Emotionality in three-dimensional abstraction - need your support

[KoRnflakes]

Hey Community,

eMotion


This site is part of my diploma thesis entitled
"Emotionality in three-dimensional abstraction".
At this I analyse the possibility to give life to primitive geometric physiques without changing the figures with

extremities or facial expression. You can help me in doing so by voting in the different phases.

With the first Part of my trial I will check if a line of action can show the respective emotional characteristics. I

will be glad if you vote for the emotion you think is shown. Every vote is a basic information for my further work.
Where are the problems? Which animation is good?
Of course i will be glad for every feedback or advice you'll post in this thread.

Thanks a lot for your support & happy New Year!

[chickentech]

That's very fascinating. I voted on the most voted on emotion every time so I guess I saw what I was supposed to see. There was one however, that took me a few minutes to figure out, the one that the majority voted was "disgust". That one was hard because it starts with him moving sluggishly and bent over the box ,then bent up straight and started "shaking" its "head". In fact I still don't know why it looks like disgust at all but I some how managed to get it right. Other than that its quite incredible how you managed to make a simple line express emotion that's so recognizable at a glance. Very impressive.

[KoRnflakes]

thx I'm very satisfied with the conclusion its a good basic to go on with the work

[KoRnflakes]

Thanks alot for your great feedback and participation in phase 1.
Now the second phase is out, where I transfer the animation of the Line of action with some changes on different 3d

Geometries. With the 7examples i will test is there are similar clear conclusions like in ph1. So thanks in advance !!!



Link to Phase 2

[Jelmer]

Interesting work mate, I had a go at it last time and voted again now, They all "work" for me.

[kidlizard]

Completed phase 2, Good work.

[ExTaZ]

Cool:P I like your Good animtions simple with boxes and triangles but still very good.

Just me or in the first movie does the blue box get dumped by the cube or something

[geldslaw]

I missed it, it said that they're all done. but in terms of expressing emotionality in animation it depends on how you direct the action?

do you lead the audience to be first aware of the emotion, by letting them anticipate the reaction of the character's emotion?

do you let the audience experience the emotion through reaction of the character?

both will work depends on the setting: drama, comedy, horror, how well an actors emotion comes over depends on the suspense/anticipation created by the director

this is my naive understanding of it, but its how I understand it

[geldslaw]

I was looking at the Pixar site and reading their description of how they produce an animated movie. they clearly define all the steps but there was one part with which i think you would find interesting - in their storyboarding they specifically point out that in the storyboard production a map must be made out to show the emotional state changes a character goes through.

true, and it's something we as an audience and inexperience animators take for granted but it was nice to see it as a specific sentiment in Pixar's animation development process

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