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Eyelids, eye blinks, and eyebrows

Eyelids, eye blinks, and eyebrows

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Eyelids, eye blinks, and eyebrows

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- Now when you're animating the eyebrows and the eye area, it's a good trick to imagine an invisible mask around the eye. Don't go drawing this on everything but it's a good idea just to have an idea that it's there. Because when you begin to move the eye, the left eyebrow or the right eyebrow, or distort one side or the other, it gives you a sense for the relative squishiness and how they're interconnected in some of the various creases and lines. Now regarding eyelids, and blinks, if you look at the top row from left to right we see our classic cartoony eyes. And this the the typical eye blink pattern. We begin eyes open, and then two frames later we are at 1/3 closed, the next image fully closed, two frames later we're 1/3 open, and then wide open again. And that's great for a very nondescript eye blink where you don't want anything too dramatic to happen. A much more extreme version of that is the full squint blink. And if you look at the middle row, you'll see the more stylized…

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