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Create personality with leading actions

Create personality with leading actions

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Create personality with leading actions

- [Instructor] One of the important things to remember when we animate, is that we're not just pushing arbitrary shapes around a screen. We're supposed to be in the business of acting and communicating personality. So I've always liked the idea of the Igor character, who's, we see the most extreme version in Young Frankenstein, the Marty Feldman performance, which is kind of what I had in mind here. So it's these, being told flip the third switch, yes, master, and then he turns to flip the third switch. So how do we go about getting that? What are the technical issues involved? Some of them that will help us get to this kind of personality? So these are my very cleaned up thumbnails. I had an original thumbnail that was very similar to this, but a bit rougher, but this is about the level of my thumbnail, those details. So I'm a thumbnail fanatic. I really believe in like strong thumbnails. Of course, these are cleaned up versions with the digital lines in the background, but the…

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