Animation principles for performances: Mo-Cap

Twelve ideas animators use to make movement read. Choose one, change the control, and see where motion capture hands you the principle and where the work is left to you.

    The idea

    In motion capture

    As a performer

    The twelve principles come from Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, The Illusion of Life (1981).

    Posing - Function to convey weight

    Clear silhouette

    Flow and follow

    Exageration

    Dynaism