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Exaggerating the body

Exaggerating the body

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Exaggerating the body

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- [Instructor] In the previous movie, I talked about exaggerating or plussing a face. Taking an expression and just pushing it, like how far can I take it. Now the same principle of course applies to body positions, and let's take a look at this. So as you can see here we have a perfectly acceptable pose, nobody should have a problem with this. We know the guy is reaching hands-up. He's going to reach down, pick up a flower, something like that. But can we plus this or exaggerate this a little further? And we certainly can, in this case I'm pushing him further forward, and increasing the line of action. So we have a line of action from his foot right through his head. I've pushed that and increased it much more. And here, even further. Now I'm making him look more hungry or aggressive even, before he's about to pick this thing up. So if it's a gold coin for example, this is way more appropriate for that kind of action, it's a little more greedy. And of course, if we go too far, he'll…

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