THE IDEAS BEHIND

As mentioned earlier, we are going to mimic a person’s behaviour and then create and animate a character on the basis of that person. The idea behind this is to study the emotional expression.

At early stage I had the ideas of imitating the body languages of different performers or singers, especially when it comes to the worldwide, each nations has its own culture and tradition which influences the locals to a great extent ---personal habits and behaviours. Also, the way of sleeping, talking, walking and showing emotional expression on the face differs from one to another.

CLOWNS SHOW

However, all these ideas seemed quite ambiguous somehow and not precise by itself, which cannot make my prospective character have its own identity and personality. Therefore, after viewing and considering various clips online, I end up in having Clown as a representative of my favourite character. My inspiration came from the Clown’s spirit!

“A Clown is an artist or performer who pretends to be a fool or foolish and acts out or acts up, in order to amuse his audience. In short, he's a comedian, someone who tries to make you laugh by being funny…”

“The Clown's character, his Face, is created by the use of makeup, as well as his costume and developing his Clown's personality. In other words, he has a certain look and he acts out, in his own, special way. Once the clown establishes this Face, it becomes his trademark, his personal property, and no other Clown may dress or make up exactly like him.” (http://sunniebunniezz.com/clowning/clowns.htm)

Hence, the clown is a very typical character having his own personality which varies from the others! The reason why he is funny, it is because of his particular makeup, costume and behaviours. He can do many things in his performance.

“Some do slapstick, pie throwing, falling down stumbling, physical humor. Some do pantomime; they don't speak, they act out their skit or story, instead. Some use magic or juggling.” (http://sunniebunniezz.com/clowning/clowns.htm)

OTHERS

(I am fond of basketball even though I don’t play.) Therefore, I am also considering mimicking the movements of the basketball player playing basketball, which would be very exciting project to undertake, as there are quantities of things that could be done. For instance, how he runs, holds the basketball, passes the basketball to his partner, jumps to throws the basketball, defences and offences, etc. All these basketball tactics are great source for imitation.

http://www.betterbasketball.com/newhome/videos.asp?playvideo=BallHandlingTrailer

http://www.betterbasketball.com/newhome/videos.asp?playvideo=ShootingExcerpt