ANIMATION - Draw from emotions

In the article "Uncommon Gestures", Walt Stanchfield throws an amazing light.

He talks of limited animation and the stock gestures. How a stock set of gestures is enough for limited animation and even for the animations like road runner. Then he unveils that for full animation, this stock is not at all enough and you have to draw from your emotions.

This sounded much like the revolutionary statements by Stanislavsky in the Acting world. His method of acting was very similarly different from the conventional systems like delsarte system. Delsarte system listed sets of gestures for different emotions. Actor would assume a particular pose from his "stock" to express the needed emotion. It appeared as if actor is telling how he would look if he had felt that emotion.

System of Stanislavsky tells to go through that emotion in reality while acting, the appropriate gesticulations would automatically be assumed.

As Shamus Kulhaine indicates about the wonderful exercises he has taught, that after doing that, animator is not thinking about the pose itself but thinks about the cause (emotion) of the pose and the pose is automatically on the paper.

Actor experiences the emotion and the suitable gesture, and expression is assumed automatically.

By taking right approach to animation, a moment comes when you experience that emotion and the drawing/gesture expressing that emotions is on the paper.