study task 5: Writing an Introduction

Within this essay I am to explore how animators visually convey character personality traits, I will be researching as to how characters are developed and created in a way to suit their respected personality traits, this will include looking at how characters are thought up through a few processes of gathering ideas and then are produced into the final drawing concepts. My essay will cover the different approaches involved as to how the character is created and then presented in an animation format. As to how the character is representing their traits, there will be further investigations into how animators use different techniques to showcase these traits.

There are various amounts of animations across all genres and styles that give the viewer a way to connect to the character’s personality traits, to discover what makes the viewer feel connected to the character I will find and compare related texts that indicate what goes on for the viewer and the animators. Most of these animations will consist between looking at American, European and Asian animations to compare how they convey a character’s personality trait and whether there is a stereotypical result between the three; from this result, we can correlate whether characters are made from a structure of set rules that all animators accept and follow or are made breaking the set rules as to how the character’s acts.

If the result of animators following a structure of set rules are true, there should be a further reason and research as to why animators convey these certain ways with these set rules. If there is we can determine that there is a structure to making a character, does it mean that the animator can choose to go against these set rules?

My hypothesis behind the role of how animators convey character personality traits is that in order for the animators to create these traits, there will be a lot of planning and referencing to actor’s performances in films. This should provide a theory whether it is possible to convey these traits from a personal or referencing stand point.