Action Analysis &Animation &Animation Artifacts &commercial animation &Hubley &Tissa David 26 Jul 2012 07:22 am
A Simple Move – recap
- Here’s what looks like a simple move done by Tissa David when she animated this Viva, paper towel commercial. It was produced, directed and designed by John Hubley. A very simple and beautiful character.
The character’s move in this scene is a complicated one done simply. She has been bent over, cleaning with her paper towel, and she moves up. You can follow the overlapping action as her eyes pull her up, head turn, and body follows.
The stripes will come and go. Tissa depends on someone else to concentrate on this material when she’s working on a commercial.
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Her eyes point in the direction she wants to go,
and the rest of the scene moves her up and into profile.
This key move is hidden under the exchange of the
paper towel from one hand to the other.
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She stops to think (accenting her monologue.)
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And she slyly looks back to camera to respond with her thought.
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She continues, all through this move, talking.
She’s pitching the product.
Here’s a QT of the piece:
Cleaning for VivaClick left side of the black bar to play.
Right side to watch single frame.
on 27 Jul 2012 at 1:03 pm 1.anik said …
Very nicely done!
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