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Storytelling
Unit 1: Lesson 4
Lesson 3: Bringing characters to life- Introduction to character design
- Character types
- Exercise 1: Who is your character?
- Costumes
- Exercise 2: Costumes
- Character sheets
- Exercise 3: Character Sheet
- Armatures
- Exercise 4: Prototype armature
- Actuators
- Exercise 5: Digital armatures
- Controlling an animatronic character
- Exercise 6: Control
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Exercise 4: Prototype armature
Build a simple skeleton for your character.
Exercise 4: Prototype armature
Activity: Make a simple armature (the bones of your character) from simple materials (such as lego, tongue depressors & pins or even paper cutouts) which demonstrates the key motions your character needs to perform. The goal isn’t to make something beautiful but to demonstrate the motions of your character.
In the next exercise, you’ll have a chance to recreate this armature using a digital modeling tool.
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- My brother is really techy and practical and I'm really good at art. I'm gonna simply draw the designs for him and state what materials are gonna be used and he's gonna do the work.
Of course with my help.(6 votes) - what if you dont have any tools. please answer somone(4 votes)
- i don't know but I do know that I don't have these specific tools either.(2 votes)
- My arature is made out of wool in minecraft.(3 votes)
- how do you make the wool(2 votes)
- hello because my mom is weird(2 votes)
- could we use molds to cover up the inside of it(2 votes)
- in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sing tonight(2 votes)
- Meow meow meow hi$$ hi$$(1 vote)
- ... Why are you like this(1 vote)
- mine i don't know how to do(1 vote)
- Can it be weird to use a wrist like that?(1 vote)