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In this tutorial, we’ll start to look at acting in animation. A lot of walks are built using the same type of key poses but the look of those key poses is dictated by the character’s emotional state . It’s important to spend the time to get inside the head of the character and feel for ourselves what’s going on. To make things slightly easier however, there are universal physiological states associated with particular emotions which we’ll identify and explore in more detail.

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This tutorial will be our first foray into WALKS! With the help of our trusty side-kick the flour sack, we’re going to start looking at how to construct a walk. There is no such thing as a standard walk as the result is dependant on the physicality and emotional state of the character. However there are some commonalities upon which you can begin to construct many different types of walk and this is what we’ll begin to look at in this tutorial.

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Key poses are our ‘story telling’ frames. The stronger the key pose, the clearer your animation will be. Using our friend the flour sack, we’re going to practice conveying attitudes and emotions purely with the body, as this is the foundation for creating stronger, clearer character animation.

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The flour sack is an age old animation tool used to help ease us into full body movement and character animation. With it’s simple construction and little corner ‘nubbins’ representative of hands and feet, it’s an ideal tool to establish a firm foundation of character animation principles without getting bogged down in facial or anatomical complexities.