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Comedia dell'arte is a professional theatre performance. A characteristic feature of this type of drama is that the actors wear special masks on their faces. These masks represent the personality traits of each character, and the characters are designed to be relatively fixed. Most of these characters represent a type of real social person, such as old men, military officers, and crowns

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Facial expressions are the most direct way for humans to express emotions, and they are also the most capable of stimulating the emotions of others. If someone laughs all the time in public, people may be tempted to laugh along. In the same way, in films and animation, the audience's emotions are affected by the characters' expressions. In animated works, character expressions are often designed to be very exaggerated. There are often expressions that cannot be performed by real actors. However, facial expressions are an important part of film and animation.

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Slapstick is a technic used in comedy. It originates from the Commedia dell'Arte, which exaggerates physical movement and action. Usually the main actor holds a stick or board in his hands and accidentally hits someone. The actor who was hit by the stick may get very angry and try to catch the main actor. Then there will be a funny chase scene.

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Everyday we tell stories to teachers, friends, family, or even just ourselves. Often, we share our interesting experience and actions with friends which may not have meanings for life. Although human probably sometimes like doing things alone, we are ultimately social beings who thrive in communities. As a result, telling story has become a vital aspect of communication. It serves a purpose beyond simple information exchange, which is all that occurs when animals convey mating messages. It contains massive things of elements including the content of story, the relationship among characters, their experiences, emotions of speakers and the most importantly spirit.

It is often said that reading a book enables one to experience a different life. This is the power of storytelling. Readers can immerse themselves in a story, experiencing the emotions and thoughts conveyed through the descriptions. In other words, a story records and transfers the spirit of its writers, with the potential to affect or change readers' actions, feelings, attitudes, or even future lives. For example, I read a book many years ago and particularly enjoyed a dialog of thought. To this day, I can vividly recall that thought and apply that idea to relevant works.

So, why story matters?

Obviously, stories have played an important role in transmission throughout human history. Ancestors chronicled events in order to impart their histories to descendants. Great authors documented their thoughts and beliefs in books; talented musicians used their compositions to recount fancy tales; excellent directors provide wonderful enjoyment for audience to know events or person through telling stories visually.

As an animation student, it is essential to recognize that however visual art is significant, a good story can elevate an animation into a great artwork. Thus, content and expression of story should be carefully considered before actual production.

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During the first week of my green screen class, I recorded a performance of a pose that originated from an 'Emotion' of a character in Apex Legends. (A First-Person Shooting Game). I always play this game during my leisure time, so I have a lot of 'Emotions' of different characters. There is a detailed background story behind the game, so many interesting poses represent the characters' personalities. I selected the pose of Bloodhound, who is skilled in tracking prey by detecting smell from the ground.

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Stop motion animation of Bloodhunt posing

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Stop motion animation of Bloodhunt posing

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Although the crown becomes a danger sign in America, the art of crown is interesting and mystical especially Chinese crown. The Chinese clown is a character in drama. They will perform many dangerous acts, such as the Tooth Dance. The Tooth Dance requires actors to hold many tusks in their mouths to make different expressions. Crown actors require a high level of professionalism and long hours of practice. Actors were at high risk of injury during training, and with the popularity of new media such as film and animation, fewer people went to watch drama. Because the time cost of becoming a clown is extremely high and there is no stable income, very few people learn to be clowns.

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Dalcroze Eurhythmics, also referred to as the Dalcroze method, is an educational technique created by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze for teaching students about music rhythm, structure, emotion and expression through body movements. Emile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss pianist and composer who had a significant impact on dance and performance significantly. During his teaching, Dalcroze used music as the primary method of communication between himself and his students, trying to develop their body movement and comprehension of music rhythm. I believe that showing the rhythm through physical movement without verbal communication is a great activity for nearly everyone. I enjoy listening to Pop and Jazz music. When I listen to music, I can not only hear the voice, lyrics, melody, but I also experience emotions and sensations. It’s like a talent that people own since we were born or something written in our DNA.

So, what benefit can I get from studying Dalcroze Eurhythmics as an animation student? Undoubtedly, I can gain a deeper comprehension of animation drawing and know more possibility and potential of body movement by doing rotoscoping animation based on dancing references. Despite these, I can also improve my creativity using the concept of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. In her essay, Juntunen discusses the meaning of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Although most people think that Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a teaching method, she describes it as a direction of musical growth, a philosophy. I agree with one of her views that art creation has no set guidelines, and that every creator has their own unique style, experience, thoughts, aesthetics, and logic. Following a studying rule restrains the art diversity. Performing in front of camera myself is a valuable way to understand how human body moves and express the personality and emotions of characters in animation.

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Andrew.D(2023) From Hellerau to Here: Tracing the Lineage and Influence of Dalcroze

Eurhythmics on the Family Tree of Theatre Pedagogy

Arts (2023), 12(4), 134,

https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040134

Juntunen, M.-L. (2019). Dalcroze Eurhythmics – a method, an approach, a pedagogy, or a philosophy?

Le Rythme, 2019, 49–59.

https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022030722257

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Stop motion animation of dancing in music 

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Stop motion animation of dancing in music 

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Starlaord dancing performance in green screen studio

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Joker's performance reference in Batman film

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Joker's performance reference in Batman film

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Live action video: Scene Performance original sequence

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Live action video: Scene Performance original sequence

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Live action video: Step by step walking across the river

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Live action video: Step by step walking across the river

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Scene in 'The Mask' starring by Jin Carrey

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Scene in 'The Mask' starring by Jin Carrey

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Based on the original scene, I did some simple editing using cropping, character tracking and camera shake effect.

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Live action video: Slap Stick of running 

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Live action video: Slap Stick of running 

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Music in animation is an important element. Many animations add the musical instrument playing scene to enhance the emotion and create a great atmosphere for the audience. In addition, as in Tom and Jerry, the characters can start a fight caused by a musical instrument.

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Rotoscope of the scene in 'Breaking Bad'

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Rotoscope of the scene in 'Breaking Bad'

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Live action video: Facial expression performance

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Live action video: Facial expression performance

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This is an acting scene I performed in front of my computer monitor. I tried to transform my face from feeling calm to becoming anxious and terrified. This performance is actually inspired by a scene of Whitler White from the series Breaking Bad. I pointed my phone at my face, the camera captured my facial expression from the monitor's point of view. Then I browsed the social media apps and found something really horrible.

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Mime is an interesting art. Mime is a fun performing art. As far as I know, there are very few films that use mime, and more street mime. Actors usually perform without objects or lines, but use body movements to express the plot. Most mime plots are relatively simple, such as pushing a box or carrying a bag. But this seemingly simple action actually makes high demands on the performers. They have to understand how body movement theory and the effects of gravity. Because of the specificity of this type of performance, the audience will carefully understand the story the performer is telling as they watch. Therefore, a good performer can stimulate the audience's senses very well.

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Live action video: magic box performance

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Live action video: magic box performance

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This is a live video of me holding a magic box and unboxing it. I tried to perform that there is a delivery box of  brand new camera in my hands. So I carefully put it on the ground and used a knife to unbox it. Then, I took the camera out and had the check.

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Live action video: performing clown walking

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Live action video: performing clown walking

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This is a live video of me playing the violin. I learnt the violin in my primary school. When playing the violin, I feel relaxed and enjoyed. There is no much large movements during playing, but listeners could impressed by the performer.