Exaggeration:

When presenting this principle of animation within my work, I wanted to try and make this animation traditionally.  I wanted to use a traditional method because my previous animations were made digitally. Therefore, I wanted to experiment and show variation. For this animation I only used pencil. Because I only used four frames, I knew that the animation would be quite short, so I decided to create a GIF. To create this GIF, I used the Stop Motion Studio app. 

I believe that creating this piece of work has been useful because I've been able learn to effectively portray characters emotions clearly to viewers. The emotion I wanted to portray for this character is shock.I have done this by drawing the character's eyes slightly larger in each frame so it looks like her eyes are widening. To extend this idea, I have raised her eyebrows and made her mouth open. Lastly, I've applied lines that visually exaggerate her emotions even more.  This will be helpful when I create my final animation as I will be able to visually communicate Boudicca's emotions. 

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