Experiment: Facial Movements In Animation

After looking at how animations use lines on faces to exaggerate certain emotions, I decided to try the same using stop frame animation techniques, to try and convincingly portray three different emotions on a human head. The face starts off emotionless and then goes into anger, happiness and sadness. I found that adding lines under certain features of the face bode well for the depictions of anger and sadness the best, as they really exaggerate both feelings in different ways. The emotion of anger is complimented by lines across the forehead to get across the feeling of aggression, whereas the emotion of sadness is aided well by lines under the eyes and mouth to give a sense of welling up and to display to the viewer that the character is about to start crying.