Last semester I had a talk with John Kuiphoff and he gave me great advice. John told me about one of his friends that does animation. The friend chose one element of animation to focus on in his career. This gave me great inspiration to focus on facial expressions. The part of me that is greatly enraptured with psychology was drawn to the idea of expressions in animation. In this project, I want to dip into the world of facial expression.
My first big idea is to incorporate music into my project. I want to have a close up of a face that reacts to different genres of music. I want to really focus on smoothness and the realness of the facial reaction of music. For the face, I would have the 3D model to be a female in her late teens or early 20’s. I am a bit conflicted on what my time duration would be. I would love to have it on loop. So maybe having 30-50 seconds of animation would be great to present. The music that I will choose will be royalty free. The genres would most likely be: Pop, Emo, Alternative, Country and Screamo. I am hoping that this will be my project. However, I do have an alternative project just in case.
My alternative idea would be to animate a mermaid captured in an aquarium. I would focus on her sad expression through the glass aquarium. However, with this idea, I would animate her swimming around in the glass water filled cage. This could help me work on the smoothness of my animations as well. I would include music in this idea too. However, it would not be the focal point like in my main idea. The music should be more incorporated in the background. I would want the music to be somber in mood, as you see the mermaid locked away for the entertainment of others. This animation I would also love to have on loop. This animation length would be about 45 seconds long.