{"id":114,"date":"2006-07-30T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T07:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-07-30T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T21:09:52","slug":"number-of-animations-versus-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tale-of-tales.com\/DramaPrincess\/wp\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Number of animations versus style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re making the animations for our Drama Princess (with the aid of the very talented Laura Smith<\/a>), I’m starting to worry more about the amount of animations<\/strong> that is required to make a characters seem believable. We have already concluded previously that that amount is relative to the amount of realism<\/strong> in the appearance of the characters. In a more abstracted style, you can get away with less variation in animation and still retain believability. It’s as if everything becomes symbolic<\/strong> and the viewer translates things to reality in his or her imagination.<\/p>\n

But for the games that Tale of Tales wants to make and the stories we want to tell, an extremely cartoony style (as in Animal Crossing) is not suitable. Nevertheless due the limitations of technology, budget and time<\/strong>, we will<\/em> end up with a relatively small set of animations. According to the logic above, this would require us to stylize the look of our characters somehow. Perhaps we can find a way to do this that is compatible with storytelling aspirations…<\/p>\n

I’m thinking of film noir and underacting<\/strong>, where the actors are being “cool” and flegmatic for reasons of style. The actors look realistic, but they behave in a stylized way. This particular form of stylization is based on reductionism and minimalism. And not on the exaggeration and caricature that are common in games (and animated films). I’m not sure, however, whether Humphrey Bogart really has a small set of animations or a very large set of very subtle ones.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, to some extent the appearance of the actors in those old Hollywood movies, is in fact not as realistic<\/strong> as one might assume since they are clearly real humans. The abstraction happens on the level of their clothing<\/strong>. As was the fashion of that day, the clothing that people wore was very formal, very stylized. They tend to wear simple suits and modest dresses. They walk with a straight back and their polite behaviour supports the abstraction of their formal appearance. In fact, a lot of the romantic tension comes from the conflict between this controlled comportment and the passions that we know rage inside of them.<\/p>\n

So maybe the solution for the animation problem in Drama Princess is to make our actors very polite<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude42
\n( They’re starting to sound like children that we need to educate \ud83d\ude09 )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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