PRP Project

Within my pathway I am specifically interested in Character Animation. In particular, I was thinking about focusing on either the principles of animation, facial expressions or a characters body movement, so therefore maybe also including the understanding of acting.

I started off by brainstorming these ideas.



Questions that I came up with:

1. What makes a good character animator?
2. What does a character animator need to make a characters emotions believable?
3. What are the main principles of animation?
4. How can you display life in inanimate objects?
5. How does understanding of acting help with animating characters?
6. Are facial expressions the ultimate demonstration of our emotions?
7. How does a characters body language portray its thoughts without a facial expression?
8. What triggers a characters emotions to change?
9. Does a characters body movement and emotions have to be exaggerated to be believable?
10. How are different emotions portrayed through facial expressions?

My next steps would be:
STEP 1: Choose and develop a topic
STEP 2: Find background info
STEP 3: Find books and videos
STEP 4: Find Articles
STEP 5: Find Internet sources

Defining my research topic; things i need to research:
>>What is the history of the topic?
--Who invented/created the area?
--Who broke the rules?
>>Specify a specific development
--What changed recently?
--Who changed it?
--What are the new opportunities?