A large part of personality is also color theory and shape language! A red character is usually maybe hot headed while a pink character is bubbly or a blue character is sad. The same goes for shape where a circle is more open or friendly, square is trustworthy or sturdy, and triangles are mean or dangerous.
This video goes a quick review and example of shape theory from a beginner illustrators pov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DiP0dVgwHk
these techniques play into a humans natural response and perception of these very things. Something cool to think about when designing a 3D model before even animating it
SKwon1220
Adding on to what was said above, Pixar's "Inside Out" is directly inspired by the essence of color and shape theory in illustrating personality and emotions. As an example, we see that Joy, who represents happiness, is bright yellow with a circular face and acts all cheery and optimistic. In contrast, Sadness is blue and pudgy with a droopy stature. This matches up with how she acts as well, since she always sees the worst in every situation and resorts to crying when she can. When everything is put into perspective, I find it really fascinating to discover the connections between the movies we grew up with and the graphics concepts we learn in this class.
JunoLee128
It's really interesting how these abstract ideas can be expressed physically in a scene (I don't think there's dialogue here right). We would think that animation/simulation is a physics-based technical approach, but this shows that there is a finer, abstract side to our computer techniques too!
anavmehta12
Spider-verse was able to use personality through each of its dimensions really well, incorporating the background for example to be a mood ring in Gwen's home dimension.
A large part of personality is also color theory and shape language! A red character is usually maybe hot headed while a pink character is bubbly or a blue character is sad. The same goes for shape where a circle is more open or friendly, square is trustworthy or sturdy, and triangles are mean or dangerous. This video goes a quick review and example of shape theory from a beginner illustrators pov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DiP0dVgwHk these techniques play into a humans natural response and perception of these very things. Something cool to think about when designing a 3D model before even animating it
Adding on to what was said above, Pixar's "Inside Out" is directly inspired by the essence of color and shape theory in illustrating personality and emotions. As an example, we see that Joy, who represents happiness, is bright yellow with a circular face and acts all cheery and optimistic. In contrast, Sadness is blue and pudgy with a droopy stature. This matches up with how she acts as well, since she always sees the worst in every situation and resorts to crying when she can. When everything is put into perspective, I find it really fascinating to discover the connections between the movies we grew up with and the graphics concepts we learn in this class.
It's really interesting how these abstract ideas can be expressed physically in a scene (I don't think there's dialogue here right). We would think that animation/simulation is a physics-based technical approach, but this shows that there is a finer, abstract side to our computer techniques too!
Spider-verse was able to use personality through each of its dimensions really well, incorporating the background for example to be a mood ring in Gwen's home dimension.