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Lecture Notes 25/09/18 - Research unit 1 - Character

This unit

• why characters matter

• Why research matters

• Brief history of character in animation

• Archetype vs stereotype

• Creating and developing own characters

• 1000 word visual analysis of an animated character (making reference to movement)

• Choose the character AND the essay question.

• Contextualise chosen character- context of broader social or cultural issues, time when the character existed.

Research and Essay Writing

• helps engage more deeply with subject

• More credible as practitoner

• Helps you avoid ‘re-inventing the wheel’

• Exposed to a range of influences.

• Teaches transferable skills of analysis, interpretation, and communication (makes us more employable)

No such thing as being original anymore

• be open to outside influences (the imagination is impure)

• Don’t be narrow minded- inspiration can come from unlikely places.

• Assimilate your influences, fully absorb and understand them.

• Let the ideas grow organically , experience and feel rather than think.

• Make your own work, not just imitations of someone else’s.

CHARACTER

What is a character?

• A being represented in film, play, story etc.

• Distinctive qualities?

• ‘Story is character, character is story.....’ -Koch 2003

• Read ‘ the illusion of life’- Disney animation

• In general, audiences ember characters, not plots

• Identifying with characters- a point of entry, identify with the problems they face

• ‘An audience loves characters who intrigue or enchant them.’ -moore and wells 2016

• Anthropomorphism

Is animation the most empathetic art? - we can relate to anyone or anything.

Personality animation

• Gertie the dinosaur- Windsor McCay 1914 - attitude

• Felix the Cat, the Stone Age - 1919 - cheeky

• Koko the clown, Out of the inkwell: invisible ink  - the fleischer brothers, 1921

• These cartoons were created for an adult audience.

• Steamboat willie, 1928 - first cartoon with synchronised sound

In the 30s, animated shorts became less popular opposed to freature length pictures

• 1934 pre production started on Snow White

• Before 1935, Disney storymen trained to think in character and exaggeration. Anything real or sincere was seen as automatically dull.

• After 1935, new values of ‘warmth and believability ’ were taught.

• ‘The art challenges the the technology and the technology inspires the art’ - John lassenter (pixar)

• Characters in feature length films had to engage on a new, deeper level- hated and loved (Davis,

   2011)

• in 1937 it was a big risk commercially and artistically.

• The studio was worried about making believable human characters.

• Controversy as it ‘killed animation’

Cut to 3D animation

• tin toy - 1988