After finishing with Franky last week, we talked this week about the importance of hands in animation. Hands are storytelling tools, as they not only hold objects but also convey emotion, personality, and intent. Ting used many of Disney’s works as good examples to show this. This part of the class I loved, as they’re my childhood films, and now I can watch them with a professional eye and appreciate them even more.
This class helped me understand the fan-like layout of the fingers and how even the simplest hands can be readable with proper shapes and silhouettes. We saw the finger groupings, how it’s a convention for this, and how it appears on camera.
For the week’s assignment, we had to create 1-3 expressive hand poses that conveyed emotion without showing the character’s face or body. These were mine:
