For today's class I want to see your two characters in various "acting" poses. You're not changing the designs of your characters, just the poses. So, pick three emotions or "transient states" (angry, drunk, sad, flirtatious -- whatever you want to choose), and make each of your characters act them out.
If, for example, you choose angry, sad, and nervous, I want to see both of your characters looking angry, sad and nervous. So it will be a total of six drawings. Bonus points if your characters have different poses for the same emotion. For example, a big, macho character might express anger differently than a meek character would. The big character might look threatening, and the meek character might look ridiculous.
By the beginning of class Monday, have a rough storyboard of your two characters acting and reacting to each other. If you don't have a story in mind, perhaps you can use some of your poses as a starting point. You will eventually be making a short animation where your two characters are acting together, and the storyboard will give you a blueprint for this. The drawings can be very sketchy.
An online article on storyboarding, which has some examples I showed in class, is here, if you want to revisit some of the examples:
http://pingmag.jp/2006/10/27/storyboard-design/
And one last detail, left over from the music project: I want everyone to re-work their title screens, to give them more "style," and align them with the style used in the animations themselves. Here's a blog that has screen captures of a ton of movie title screens, if you're looking for inspiration:
The Movie Title Stills Collection
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