Advanced Animation (Character)

 

 Advanced Animation (Storytelling)

Date : September/15,19,20,21 and 22 /2023

Name : Mabuchi Arata

Lecture : Advanced Animation

Lecture's Name + Martin Chong Yuh Lin

ID : 03515789

1, Introduction

In this module, we've learnt about character's settings and personalities. The things we've learnt in the module is all about character design, however, the idea itself learnt isn't about visual designs like what we've got in previous modules, the point was all about the way to create the character's settings and brief plot for making interesting story. To conclude the brief ideas from module, The characters in animation should conflont some struggle through they should also have some desire for themselves.

will they panic? ot woll they try to find solution, thdre could be various way to react in that situation, you must consider to think about their react in the locked elevator to start to think about their personality and characteristic.

2, Character's personality

The important factor for character design is all about how to make audience to care characters? This is tough questions in the story developing, so the personal experience was the key to create stories so audience can immerse into the our created world. In the process of character design on the other hand, we need to hve a test called "Elevator test", this is the test to put your own characters in locked elevator.

In this test, we put characters in the locked elevator to see their reactions, will they panic? or hink about solution? This test will help you to understand the personality of characters much better, especially in the case of crisis. Characters in the story has the role to guide audience to follow the story, share their lessons, challenges, and emotions. This elevator challenge is the key to understand how the characters react when they face difficult situation or challenge to make much more interesting characters.

The character design can be separated into two different parts, "Internal" or "External", External feature is the feature just character's visual outlook, on the other hand, internal feature is settings for inside of character such as settings or personality. This part is much difficult part for character design, this is because you need to make character compelling so audience can care about. The good way to do this is meking a references of character from you or people around you, similar to the story plotting, personal experience may be good ally to plan internal settings for charaters, do you or your friends have any emotional moment that you or he/she impress? These experience can create emotional impact to create good characters and by mixing what if statements, you can create your own good story. the screams of human children for energy.

3, Desire and challenge

This is altered to say as "wants and needs", As the name suggests this is the term to give any challenges that characters are going to face through the story. To explain more about this, wnats are the ideas for characters that leads character's action, on the other hand, needs are things that characters need to learn or do to geow up and success on their life.The good example is James P. Sullivan from Pixar's movie , "Monsters, Inc".

In the movie, he wants to be the most scarer , the skilled monsters employee to get the screams of human children for energy, but he needs to be a father figure for little girl called "Boo" who accidentally wonder into the world of monsters. Character's choice and actions for needs to achieve their wants can be one of the important factor to make your want character much lovable. Through the process of character's action for their wants and needs, it's going to be needed to think about "obstacles".

4, Obstacles, Arc and Stakes

These sections were actually separated, but because of the time issues I currently have (The time is now 0:03 on September 22nd, 2023 (Fri)) and my thoughts that three factors are related each other so I can make it much easiler to explain, I am going to combine these three factors intoone section to explain.

First of all, Obstacle is the things that stands in the way and prevents the character from getting what they want and need. The purpose of this idea is to make characters (especially protagonists) to face their challenge or fears and lead fight against it to grow, it can be external such as enermy or internal such breaking relationship. The good example of external obstacle is Vulture from Spider-man homecoming who tries to hijack Avenger's plane to sell advanced weapons using Chitauri's technology which is powerful warrior race in Marvel universe, on the other hand, the good example of internal obstacle is breaking up with family in Inside out, in that movie, the main character Riley and her family moved to San Francisco for her father's new job but she had a lot of troble with her family and he starts distancing from new life, then she tried to run away to Minnesota.

Through the chalenge that character face, the idea of character arc is going to exist. In the story, characters are going to choose theire choise in responce of obstacle they face, and how does the character change according to the result of choice. It may be a good result so the character may reach to their wants and needs or they accidentally fail because of the bad choice. The arc is the good way to visualise the result of choice against the character's choice against their chalendge.

Finally, let's talk about stakes, its is about the problems that might cause what characters fail to solve problems they fall. In other words, it is all about the risk of obstacles the characters face against, the story can be more interesting if the risk of obstacles are much more bigger and more dangerous. The stakes can be external, internal or philosophical. The example of external is physical problem such as death to people or destroy of city, example of internal is lost of relationship or lost of place to belong, finally, philosophical is about the change of value, the good example is fight between good and evil.

5, My challenge

Before we end up the e-portfolio, allow me to state all of terms I've got in this module for my animation project I made last module, in my project, terms I've got in this module such as wants and needs and obstacles and other staff is going to be like these shown below.