You see a range of emotion - shock, surprise, embarrassment - and then her dashing away.

You can tell that she’s trying to collect herself. He was quoted for making shots final that didn’t have facial animation because he felt so much of the acting was in the pantomime and overall body performance.įor Thomas’ shot, you sense Stella’s nervousness right away. Walt Disney himself was a fan of this approach. This really emphasizes the performance and acting. We want students to focus on all that you can get out of great pantomime. Student shot featuring Stella: Thomas Stockingerīobby: We purposely designed Stella without any facial controls, just blinks. So when you look at a character, you get inspired - and then you say, “Wow, what do I want to do?” The core of a great design is when you look at it and it excites you and you ask yourself, “What can I come up with?” “What can I create?” “What inspires me?” To energize students to push themselves, we have to create characters that are appealing and exciting to work with. She’s really amazing to work with and her skinny limbs allow for some really great shapes when posing.īobby: Stella is a great design. We designed her with FK/IK snapping and FK/IK blending over frames as we have with the other tribe characters as well. We made Stella very fluid and fleshy with full FK and IK controls for her spine, arms, and legs. We want our students to feel comfortable animating, especially when they move from one character to the next. We wanted to make sure that our students could learn to animate the full characteristics of a female right out of the box.īobby: The controls across all of our rigs are standardized - that is very important. We wanted to be mindful that we actually created Stella - a female character - and not just created a modification of a male character.

She’s feminine, yet also has on the tribe war paint which gives her a bit of an edge and confidence. Enjoy.īobby: She brings a strong female character to our character tribe. Stan and Stella are available to all Animation Mentor students - past and present - starting in our Animation Fundamentals. Bobby also selected a student animation that showcases Stella and her unique characteristics. We continue the chat with today’s character introduction of Stella. Just last week, our CEO, Bobby Beck, introduced us to a new member of the character tribe: Stan.

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