Face Study
This image demonstrates how I can take a facial expression and apply it to different characters. The first column shows a fairly plain smiley face going through a series of expressions. The second shows how the same expressions translate onto my character Belt Boy. The third column applies the expressions to Yoshi; I chose to do a column of him in order to demonstrate that I could apply expressions to a character that someone else created and stay on-model, which I think I did a rather good job of doing. I feel that the Yoshi faces expressed the same moods as the other faces, despite a lack of eyebrows or teeth. Next to Yoshi's face is that of Chixter, a mouthless, birdlike creature I created. While Yoshi's face was a slight challenge without eyebrows and teeth, I had a real challenge with Chixter, who didn't have a mouth - perhaps one of the two most expressive parts of the face. I instead had to rely on the other most expressive part: the eyes. I feel that I succeeded with that. I wanted to do one anime face to show how common expressions drawn American-style translate into their anime counterparts, and I did so with an anonymous catgirl. I also think that this column was a success, because she not only looked like a traditional anime character, but she also still looked cute and feminine even in the most extreme of expressions.
Yoshi is copyright of Nintendo (As if you didn't know).
