The start point of the small thesis assignment:
How empathy is created in animation and how much realism you need for it
Keywords:
Motion capture – Empathy – Sad – Facial – Voice actors
Introduction:
For this research I want to dive into how emotions have been portrayed in animations. There are different techniques for creating emotions in an animation. You can think of motion capture, But also you can animate a bag of beans that looks sad. It all creates empathy for the audience. In this paper I want first want to look into different categories that can provoke different emotions (such as, sound, different angles, coloring, lighting).