Experimentation: Pose Sheets

 

In developing my pose sheets for my characters, I created a reference video of different poses tailored to each of my characters. Above are some traced images from this reference video, using some of the key poses for my character Sunny. These display a range of their emotions and how they might look when expressing these feelings. As Sunny is a particularly expressive character, their emotions might appear more animated or lively than Alistair, who is more reserved. 

Using these traced images, I can stylise the poses to create a pose sheet for Sunny. I'll do the same process for Alistair and June. This process enabled me to visualise the poses of my characters more thoroughly than doing it from my imagination. I'm able to see how gravity and clothing change how the figure appears, and I'm able to consider how camera angles might alter how much of the face is visible, and how much expression is visible to the audience.