Animation Blog #7

Blog 7 Story. Write about any aspect of story citing any chapter of the Disney text.

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9 ways to build audience emotion, 5 points to remember 

The animator Fred Moore was a brilliant animator, he helped tell the story by giving the character's the expression and use of emotion. Although Fred Moore was only 18 at the time when he first started at Disney he brought the idea of "breaking the mold" that other animators had not brought attention in the studio. The book stated that during his first week Fred began drawing, "counter moments, counter thrusts, in the way he drew," he even took a shot at perfecting Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney was so impressed with the way that Fred helped tell the story, he asked Fred to go and show the other animators how he drew the seven dwarfs for Snow White. It is interesting to read that with Fred Moore, if he added a, "thicker line at the bottom of the dwarfs' jowls, it gave them an extra feeling of weight and dimension," with this addition the dwarf also had a different look of emotion. Emotion helps drive the story as well. Fred was also very popular because of the transition that he could for emotions on the sketches, it is said that when people were brought into the animation studio they were,"entranced with seeing two drawings that could be flipped to show a change to expression, such as going from a frown to a "take," or a shift of the eyes that show the brows and the face moving the shapes animating," this would later be developed into what the animators use in present day. Fred followed up by saying that, "we should always let them see the characters think," basically stating that in order to understand the story we must understand what emotions the characters are going through. Interestingly enough, while Fred stated this idea, his coworkers discovered that the true way to understand what a character is thinking or feeling is through expression. Expression and emotion drive the story.  Throughout the years that Fred Moore worked at Disney he discovered 14 points of animation that every animator should know. Hence the creation of the 14 Points which consisted of the rules of is the drawing of appealing to does the animation have clarity ranging from 2 dimensional to 4 dimensional. 

The animation below is one of Fred Moore's animations of Dopey. You can see how he used expressions showing that Dopey is ranging from silly to being curious of what is around the corner. With the use of expression you can tell that this drawing is telling a story as well. 

Attribution to:http://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/2006/06/little-bit-more-of-freds-work.html
http://blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com/2006/06/little-bit-more-of-freds-work.html