Hard -vs- soft accents. |
Take a look at the image to the left, taken from The Animator's Survival Kit (all our students should have a copy; if you don't have one, you can buy it here). It shows someone pointing, both as a hard accent (past the extreme point, bouncing back) and a soft accent (settling in to the extreme pose.
The difference is one of emphasis. In the top example, someone might be pointing vigorously, shouting "over there!!" and pointing quickly.
In the bottom example. someone might be pointing slowly, with their hand settling in to the final pose. They're not shouting, they aren't in a hurry.
Hard and Soft Accents
A cartoon "take" with a hard accent |
Animating a "Take"
A "take" with a hard accent goes into an extreme pose (see image above, at frame 27) then quickly settles into the final pose. The key point is that the extreme position is only held for a couple of frames.
Hitting the accents
Hitting an accent - Animator's Survival Kit |
By "accents", we're not talking here about a regional accent - say a Scottish or Welsh accent - we're talking about making it clear in the poses that the character is speaking the line of dialogue.
In this case an "accent" is the part of the line of dialogue that has emphasis, and need to be punctuated. Take a look at the example from the Animator's Survival Kit above. In this case the "accent" is the visual punctuation of the line of dialogue.
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