Friday, February 13, 2009

Navone on Eyebrows

Navone's got a good post on eyebrows

here's some of the gems:

Animation tip: have your brow animation precede any head or body movement. Otherwise the brow action will be lost in the movement and the audience will miss it. This technique also helps to make the character look like he's thinking before he's acting.

And here are some interesting behavioral facts about brows:

* As the pitch of the voice raises the brows go up
* As the pitch of the voice lowers, the brows likewise drop
* When asking a question where the answer is already known, the brows raise
* When asking a question where the answer is truly unknown, the brows lower
* Spontaneous facial expressions (surprise, fear, pain, etc.) tend to be symmetrical, where as expressions we choose to make (curiosity, suspicion, contempt, etc.) can be more asymmetrical.

These are just trends, not rules

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great post, and excellent blog, man! I will definitely come back here for updates.

Lots of good information here, and it's great to see Keith Lango's thoughts on animation principles.

-Don

mattanimation said...

great info! never would have thought of this. you have saved me from having to break bad habits that I haven't formed yet.

jriggity said...

great tips indeed!

jriggity