AnimSchool Classtime – Animating The Eye Dart

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AnimSchool Tips: Animating the Eye Dart

What takes a character from looking “cool” to feeling real? Action begins in the eyes. When you turn your head, it is your eyes that lead the action. When you are disgusted and have to look away, it is your eyes that close first. Thought and feeling start with the eyes and then descend to the rest of the body. But how? How can you convey feelings and emotions through two small orbs of geometry? By understanding that eyes are not just seeing the world, but processing it. Take a moment and look at your eyes in the mirror. Do you see that? That small quick motion
where your pupils travel across your eye and then darts to a new position. In animation, we call that an eye dart and it allows animators to quickly and simply convey that a character is truly
alive.

Animschool Instructor, Ricky Renna, steps through the different uses of an eye dart using real-world and film examples to show the power of this small piece of movement in life and in
animation

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