3 famous characters or people with expressive faces

Discuss 3 famous characters (or people) who have very expressive faces:

Jim carry: He is well known for his humorous and energetic expressions.  He often breaks out into an extreme comical outburst in several of his movies with a lot of expressive facial acting. (again, for comedic effect)

Simon Pegg:  Especially throughout both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, His characters express a wide array of expressions from dead serious, shocked, sad, anger and happiness.

Toby Turner (Tobuscus): A youtube comedian, Toby Turner often uses a variety of expressions naturally with his energetic comedic style.

Single Scene with Great Emotion and Acting

Discuss in detail a single scene (animated) which displays great emotion and acting. What did the creators do to make the scene so powerful, eg Light effects, pauses, camera angles:

The scene in Rango where Rattlesnake Jake first appears and forces Rango to reveal that he’s been lying and leave the town.  The sequences uses a dusk setting in an old western town, with fiery orange skies.

Pauses in the dialogue between Jake’s dialogue add dramatic tension as he is feared by the towns people and no one is willing to stand up to him. (He talks, and it is accepted via facial expressions of fear)  The dramatic interrogation-like situation leaves Rango morally defeated and he is forced to leave the town.

Defining Terms + Movie Scene with good storytelling camera angles

Definitions:

Continuity:  The state of being continuous.

Mise-en-scene:  The arrangement of everything in front of the camera.

Composition:  The arrangement of visual elements.

The into scene of Range where Rango is thrust out of his little lizard tank and intot he mojave desert is a particular scene that comes to mind, But it isn't on youtube so here is another clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI6984KMSPw&hd=1

Getting up-to-date + New assignments (Character concepts + Rough animatic)

Catching up:

Melissa Sharp's Story Idea

Concept:

Doing what has to be done
Doing what’s right even if there is no reward or praise for it

Plot:

Young girl has to fight demon-robots in secrecy to keep everyone else safe

Setup:

Modern-day times, any college campus setting

Deterrents:

-Robot demons destroying stuff keep her from getting average things done like schoolwork, maintaining a relationship, etc.



Sir Villarreal's plot points:

1-King sends his best knights to go slay a dragon that has been attacking the king’s village.

2-Sir Villarreal begs the king to let him help, king says “no”.

3-Sir Villarreal goes to the dragons cave to try and slay the dragon and finds all the dismembered knights.

4-Dragon knocks Sir Villarreal away mockingly because he thinks he is no threat.

5-Sir Villarreal gets a montage of him working on/ building something.

6-The dragon is lured out of his cave by a gigantic puppet of a girl dragon, which he runs up and kisses.
7-The puppets head reveals a cannon inside and Sir Villarreal lights it and blows the dragon’s head off.

8-Sir Villarreal returns to the king triumphant with the dragon’s head on a platter and is promoted for his efforts.

NEW STUFF!


Character Concepts for Sir Villarreal

Color Scheme Ideas

The Rough Animatic

or: http://youtu.be/lwSKxdpC4jY

Jumping the gun... again

I decided to start modeling the head of Sir Villarreal earlier today. Got the base shapes of the face and helmet done.  Hopefully he'll make the cut as the character for my project. (only time will tell.)

Work in progress.

Character sketches and story ideas (Now things get interesting)

Character Sketches:

-Melissa Sharp

-Leonard Calligan

-Sir Villarreal

-Sir Villareal's enemy... The Dragon

Stories:

#1

Character: Leonard Calligan

Concept:
-Impatient gamer determined to fight for the game he wants

Plot:

-Gamer buys a bunch of games

-He accidentally leaves the one he wanted the most in the game store

-Realizes this as the mall starts to close

-He has to fight his way past mall security to get his game back to play it tonight!

Setup:

-Setting of a mall, particularly in its video game store
-Mall is closing

Deterrents:

-Mall security turrets

-Hidden floor mines

-The mall cop


#2

Character: Sir Villarreal

Concept:

-Following your dreams

-Proving yourself

-Brains over brawn

Plot:

-A knight want’s to prove himself to his king, but he’s small and weak

-All the big knights slain by dragon that’s stronger than them

-Knight finds the dragon, which mocks the little knight because of his size

-Builds cut-out of girl dragon
-Dragon falls for the cut-out and rushes up and kisses the fake girl dragon
-Knight had cannon behind fake dragon and blows off real dragon’s head

-Returns to king victorious

Setup:

-Medieval England

-Castle

-Country side

Deterrents:
-Dragon’s size and strength
-Knight’s own weak little body

Aside from all this I created a makeshift storyboard template for whatever aspect ratio is used by HD720.  I'm guessing storyboarding will be in the near future so I'll be somewhat ready. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to all this!

Mood Board Assignment

1st attempt at a mood board.

These were more things I like. I couldn't really come up with "mood" related images. :\