Phew, I finally got around to writing these.

Disclaimer: Now that I’m back in Istanbul, I don’t get much of a chance to discuss about animation and acting so I figured I might discuss here on the blog, an “out-loud thinking” if you will. These are merely some of my observations and things that stick to my mind about acting and animation so none of it should be taken as if “set on stone”.

Alrighty, so I do get to watch a lot of trashy t.v. stuff and I know that it doesn’t hold any value but one thing with shows where there are contestants aiming for a similar goal, you get to see their raw emotions whether it be them crying from sadness/happiness or jumping from joy. Usually, all these emotions get to be extremes on these shows and the contenders don’t come across as ordinary people but just bundles of emotion.

As time goes by in the show, they usually get themselves together and have much more control over themselves. Around this stage, I come across something quite frequently, “Self-correction”.

I find moments like these really believable in the sense that you can feel the person on the other end of the camera is thinking. I put up two examples I could remember below, where at first they seem to be speaking with emotion, them being right there at that exact moment. But right after they do tiny corrections to what they’re saying so that it doesn’t come across wrong or any other reason they have in their minds at that moment.

Usually when I’m animating, I pull a bunch of eye-darts out of the hat to try and make the character alive and thinking but I realize little things like “self-correction” also help quite a lot, if the voice-acting allows for it of course.

Over and out.

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