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Learning Anime Studio

You're reading from   Learning Anime Studio Bring life to your imagination with the power of Anime Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849699570
Length 354 pages
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Chad Troftgruben Chad Troftgruben
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Learning Anime Studio
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Stepping into the World of Animation FREE CHAPTER 2. Drawing in Anime Studio 3. Exploring Layers and Timelines 4. Enhancing Your Art with the Layer Settings Panel and Style Palette 5. Bringing a Cartoon Character to Life 6. Developing Your Cartoon's Scenery 7. Creating a Library of Actions and Assets 8. Animating Your Characters 9. Exporting, Editing, and Publishing Index

Incorporating facial expressions


Before we start creating a basic conversation, it's best to explore how to create different emotions by manipulating facial details. You can create your own character to do this; or, you can use the work file entitled CharacterFacialExpressionStart.anme if you'd prefer to use the book's character.

An anxious expression

There are a few ways we could create the illusion that a character is anxious. This will mostly come down to the way the eyes move, along with the eyebrows. Your character probably won't be smiling as well in this case. The following are some tips for creating an anxious expression:

  • Shifting eyes back and forth: This can be effective with dialog. This is one reason it was suggested that it may be best to create your pupils in a separate layer than that of the whites of the eyes. That way, it's easier to grab the pupils, create keyframes, and shift them.

  • Tilt the eyebrows outward: This can be used when creating sad expressions, but it can also...

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