From the course: Character Animation: Dialogue
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Planning the shot
Now, let's animate a scene that has a change in facial expression. For this exercise, we're going to do a simple double take. Now this is a classic reaction shot that you'll see in a lot of cartoons. And what happens is the character observes something. He turns away from that thing and then reacts and then turns back and looks at the thing again. So that's where we get the double take. Now, how you animate the double take is really going to be up to you. But one of the things I would suggest is that you think about how you want your character to move and react and sketch it out a little bit. So, I've got a sketch that I did for this particular character and this is kind of how I want this to go. And this is a pretty much a standard type of double take. So we're going to start of here with the character just kind of passing time, really a very neutral expression and then he's going to turn his head and observe something. Turn back with that same expression, kind of a neutral…
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