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Introduction to accents

Introduction to accents

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Introduction to accents

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- [Narrator] Let's listen to accents and again I'm not talking about regional accents. I'm talking about the stresses that you hear in spoken speech in dialogue. And this is going to be important because it also effects how you animate your scene, let's play this thing. - [Man] Cooo-ee, cooo-ee, cooo-ee, cooo-ee. - [Narrator] So I looped it for a time so that your could hear it. After you loop dialogue for a while you stop hearing the words, and you start hearing the stresses or the accents. And in this case I've already drawn them for you. Cooo-ee, it's down on the oo, up on the ee sound. So guess what, this also affects the way I animate the scene. So here I have the scene and I want to go down on the oo sound and that would be this little anticipation, up on the ee, so cooo-ee and settle. Accents are a great way for you to block in the main key poses of your scene and to communicate it. And so here is the final scene. - Cooo-ee, cooo-ee, cooo-ee. - [Narrator] The dialogue fits…

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