Ed Hooks 'Acting for Animators'
Everybody, including you and me, has a distinct power center. Usually it is a couple of inches below the navel, in the area that the japanese call the hara. When you walk across the room, that point sort of leads the way. But haven't you seen people whose power centre seems to be someplace else?
It helps an aniamtor to be conceptual about power centres because every character has one. When you give a character a noticeable power center, it suggests more characterization.
The higher the power center, the quicker the rhythm of the character. Anxiety is a high and heady power center. Confidence, on the other hand, manifests itself in a feeling of weight, a lower power center.
Various poses, mainly concentrating on the hips and shoulders, depicting different personalities with a common visual appearance. Using the Andy Rig.
From left to right:
An anxious person, searching for something.
A shy person, hiding from someone desireable. (Spine should be bent.)
A coy person, pretending to be shy to seduce someone.
A confident person, trying to pick a fight.
A person who thinks they're amazing, trying to show off.
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