The first reading and what im actually making.

Well I suppose I cant keep it secret anymore on what this project will be about.

I have decided to create a short animated piece designed around a robot that changes its mood depending on what music it plays. The reason I chose this idea for my dissertation was to challenge myself to show emotions with animation and make and rig a complete model. I also felt that it would be a great piece for me to put in my portfolio to show my skills in animation.

To get a better feel of emotion and how it changes the way people move their body I decided to rent "The Book of Tells: How to read people's minds from their actions" by Peter Collett who is an expert on body language and sub-concious body language.

The book helped me to understand why people move in certain ways and how an individual's body language can represent an emotion or action. It also showed me the difference between controlled actions and indirect actions that I want to incorporate into the robot. For example in a section of the book describing Prince Charles the author mentions that, "he characteristically draws his hand across his body and reaches for the opposite cuff. This is Charle's cuff-link fiddle - he resorts to it whenever he's on display and in transition."

The way the author goes onto describe the emotions as if they were mechanical actions and traditional made them seem ideal for my project as I want to show the complexity of the robot.



Bibliography

• Collett, Peter. The Book of Tells: How to Read People's Minds from Their Actions. London: Bantam, 2004. Print.

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