Animation &Animation Artifacts &Tissa David 06 Jul 2009 07:29 am
A Simple Move
- Here’s what looks like a simple move done by Tissa David when she animated this Viva, paper towel commercial.
The character’s move in this scene is a complicated one done simply. She has been bent over, cleaning with her paper towel, and she moves up. You can follow the overlapping action as her eyes pull her up, head turn, and body follows.
The stripes will come and go. Tissa depends on someone else to concentrate on this material when she’s working on a commercial.
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Her eyes point in the direction she wants to go,
and the rest of the scene moves her up and into profile.
This key move is hidden under the exchange of the
paper towel from one hand to the other.
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She stops to think (accenting her monologue.)
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And she slyly looks back to camera to respond with her thought.
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She continues, all through this move, talking.
She’s pitching the product.
Here’s a QT of the piece:
Cleaning for VivaClick left side of the black bar to play.
Right side to watch single frame.
on 06 Jul 2009 at 6:16 pm 1.John Schnall said …
That little look to camera is so… Tissa. Tissa ran an after-hours animation class at the Ink Tank back in the day which I had the privilege of attending; she showed us a bit of animation where a character spins in a circle. I think it was for a Hubley picture; in any case there was something very magical about it. She showed us that the one image where the character’s eyes were to camera was held for an extra frame. Just one frame more; you didn’t see it but you felt it.
on 07 Jul 2009 at 4:56 pm 2.emily said …
Thanks for posting this! I love the design (and animation).