![]() Compared with real facial expressions, sad cartoon expressions were perceived as sadder, and happy cartoon expressions were perceived as less happy, regardless of whether full-face or single facial features were viewed. The results show that happy cartoon expressions were recognized more accurately than neutral and sad expressions, which was consistent with the happiness recognition advantage revealed in real face studies. The cartoon face images used in this study were converted from a set of real faces acted by Chinese posers, and the observers were Chinese. Across the experiments, three presentation conditions were employed: (1) a full face (2) individual feature only (with two other features concealed) and (3) one feature concealed with two other features presented. Therefore, three experiments were conducted in this study to systematically explore a recognition process for emotional cartoon expressions (happy, sad, and neutral) and to examine the influence of key facial features (mouth, eyes, and eyebrows) on emotion recognition. Despite their popular applications, the mechanisms of recognizing emotional expressions in cartoon faces are still unclear. 5Key Laboratory of Pervasive Computing, Ministry of Education, Beijing, ChinaĬartoon faces are widely used in social media, animation production, and social robots because of their attractive ability to convey different emotional information.4Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.3Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.2Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing, China.1Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.Watch it again one section at a time and draw the faces yourself.Shu Zhang 1,2†, Xinge Liu 1,2†, Xuan Yang 1,2†, Yezhi Shu 1, Niqi Liu 1, Dan Zhang 3,4* and Yong-Jin Liu 1,2,5* Watch the video all the way through once (it’s only around 7 minutes ? ) And now it’s time for the exaggerated cartoon expressions video You can draw out a range of expressions that will serve you character in 95% of its life situations, and keep that as a quick reference sheet on hand to avoid reinventing the wheel constantly. ![]() Tintin, Snooopy, Calvin - they are recognisable by the patterns in their lives and their behaviour. Every character ha a personality and calls on the same emotions most of the time. So they go certain places, wear certain things, act in certain ways to certain people. Thinking “Character” for exaggerated expressionsĬharacters have characteristics. So keeping track of what moves can help you when drawing exaggerated cartoon expressions. Similar, when you grin madly, your mouth stretches from side to side and pushes up the apples of your cheeks which in turn change the shape of your eyes… you get the picture. The chin goes south when the jaw drops, whether to yawn, yell or show disbelief. It can explode … but that’s only possible in animation! So above the eyes, the head (apart from the hair, which can give an indication of emotion) is pretty static.īelow the eyes, on the other hand… the face is extremely mobile. The top of the skull is made of bone and as a result it can’t move a whole lot, no matter what your character is feeling. Scroll down to find the link to my “not so secret” Pinterest board about how to draw cartoon expressions Asking “what moves?” for exaggerated cartoon expressions These days we have Google and Pinterest, that gift to all creative folks everywhere. The best artists in the world always have and always will. Using a reference for exaggerated cartoon expressions What’s a beginner to do in order to get going? ![]() Drawing exaggerated cartoon expressions can be challenging to say the least.
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