Animation References

For some ideas on what kind of animation will be needed to appriopriately display the characters villian traits I have looked up a number of video clips which show them.

From my overall understanding from watching these clips it is quite clear that hand gestures play a very important role in showing a villains emotions. Facial expressions are usually overly done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFj8z51YBaI

Time:
0:20 - 0:31

Dr Doofenshmirtz from Phineus and Ferb laughs and gestures at his evil plans.

I particularly like the hand gestures he does at the end of the clip. It is asossiated with madness and scheming. Perfect for my animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUa8DLg1TCE

Time:
0:38 - 0:44

Dr Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog makes evil hand gestures and faces.

Once again the wriggling fingers gesture shows up. He also raises his hands as seen to the left here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EPXGwkRQ0

Time:
6:57 - 7:02

Captain Hook from Disney's Peter Pan.

There are loads of great scenes in this video. Captain hook inparticular is a huge user of hang gestures (a feat considering he has only 1) often being overly dramatic when he does them.

His facial expressions also border on insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT6KAaShAL8

Time:
6:12 - 6:22

Yzma from The Emperors New Groove

She mostly acts through her facial expressions and does a number of crazy faces.