From the course: Animation Foundations: Gesture

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What are gestures?

What are gestures?

From the course: Animation Foundations: Gesture

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What are gestures?

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- All right, so what is a gesture? Well, a gesture can be many different things, right? It's a visual way of speaking. It's a way of talking with your hands or not talking with your hands. It's a signal to somebody. Let's say you're sick, and you're coughing, right? That could illustrate a feeling, right? You could also use gestures to kind of tell something with your eyes or with a shoulder shrug, right? It's all the things that we as humans can understand to be natural but that we have to get back into our work. When I was animating on these first movies, I didn't understand, really, what a gesture was. We were just moving around our hands to dialogue a lot of the times, and people weren't really thinking about it so much in this way. A book came across our desk, which was recommended by Glen Keane, and he had come to the studio to give a great talk. He's a very famous animator, and he told us about this book called Manwatching by Desmond Morris. There's also a show that this guy…

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