Emotion is the key to getting your regulars to connect and engage with your video. Studies discovered universal expressions of seven emotions: surprise, joy, disgust, sadness, anger, contempt, and fear. These results midpoint any viewer will likely socialize your character’s facial expressions—like a smile—with given feelings—like joy.

The issue is that viewers can misunderstand your video’s message if the emotions your weft conveys are ambiguous.

For example; psychiatrists have linked crossed stovepipe to defensiveness. So, if your weft performs this whoopee with a big smile, your viewers might be unsure well-nigh the emotion you convey: Are they hiding something? Are they happy? Are they uncomfortable? It’s unclear.

Luckily, subtracting the correct expressions at the right time to convey the desired emotion is easy using the pursuit six techniques.

1. Transpiration their facial expression

Facial expressions are a huge part of how humans perceive emotion and make their emotions known to others.

Like in real life, the notation from your volatility should transpiration their facial expressions as they go through your video’s events.

For example; if your weft just heard surprising news, take him from a Neutral to a Shocked or Surprised facial expression depending on whether the information was positive or negative.

You can transpiration your character’s facial expressions in Vyond Studio by clicking on them and selecting the Expression icon at the top right corner. From there, you can pick between the expression that largest resembles your character’s feelings at that particular scene.

2. Transpiration their actions

Body language—like vocal tone and gestures—allows humans to interpret other people’s emotions just as their facial expressions do.

Psychologists like Albert Mehrabian oppose body language transmits as much as 93% of a message. While people have criticized Mehrabian’s study, it’s well-spoken that it’s harder to convey emotion without soul language. Or when soul language doesn’t match facial expressions.

For example; our “Too noisy” pose covers a character’s ears and adds two bolts of lightning next to them. This pose is perfect to symbolize a noisy environment. Therefore, subtracting an expression of joy on the character’s squatter wouldn’t make any sense, while one of frustration does.

You can transpiration your character’s deportment by selecting a weft and clicking on the Whoopee menu at the top right corner. From there, pick an whoopee that amplifies the emotion that your character’s facial expression is trying to convey.

3. Add facial expressions to your notation surpassing subtracting audio

The weft expression you add surpassing subtracting audio (lip-syncing) influences how your weft looks before, during, and without saying your lines.

For example; you can add a “smiling” facial expression to your weft if the voice line is heady or positive. This wing won’t make your weft smile while talking. But it’ll add a smile surpassing and without the weft says any sentence, thus projecting happiness.

Like before, select your weft and add a facial expression at the top right corner. You can then click on your weft once increasingly to add a Dialog in the mic icon from your toolbar.

The Dialog menu allows you to record from your microphone, upload an audio file, or use our text-to-speech full-length to assign an audio track to your character. You can pick the recording option that largest suits your needs.

4. Include music to emphasize your character’s emotions

The music you use emphasizes your character’s feelings while moreover helping the viewer finger these emotions.

For example; studies found sad music—think Mozart’s Requiem—can overdraw people’s feelings of sorrow and melancholy. Therefore, playing sad music while your weft goes through an unfortunate situation will magnify the scene’s gloomy atmosphere.

On the flip side, play upbeat music as the weft smiles, and your video will convey positivity.

You can add music to your project by clicking on Audio at the top left side of the toolbar. From there, you can either segregate between dozens of our music tracks or upload an audio track.

5. Use camera movements

Camera movements can uncontrived the viewers’ sustentation to the whoopee or facial expression your weft is performing.

A zoom—when you requite the illusion that the camera is closer or remoter from the subject than it is—is an easy movement you can incorporate into any video.

For example; you can zoom in to a character’s squatter so that the viewer can focus, say, on the frustration or joy in the character’s face. Then, you can zoom out without a few seconds to re-establish the unshortened frame as the zone worth watching.

You can zoom in or zoom out hands with Vyond by first subtracting a Camera Movement from the Camera icon at the top right corner. Then, transpiration the placement of the triangles based on how you want to zoom.

To zoom in, place the light orange rectangle on top of your character’s squatter and make it smaller than the visionless rectangle. To zoom out, interchange the rectangle’s sizes.

Zooms are one of seven camera movements you can use to emphasize your character’s expressions and actions. You can learn increasingly well-nigh these camera movements here.

6. Utilize the Protract Scene feature

Characters can only have one expression per scene. So to switch their squatter surpassing waffly the props and scenario, we need to use the Protract Scene feature.

Vyond’s Protract Scene full-length allows you to protract a scene from a previous scene’s endpoint.
This full-length is useful for scenes where you want to alimony the same props, characters, and environment while waffly a character’s expressions or actions.

For example; let’s say you create a scene where the company’s CEO shows the company’s yearly performance to his team members. The scene could consist of two shots:

1. 1. One surpassing the CEO shows the results
   2. One without the CEO shows the results

In the first shot, the employees could have a neutral facial expressions. However, you could use the Protract Scene full-length during scene B to alimony the elements of the first shot while waffly the employees’ facial expressions to either surprised, sad, or happy, depending on the CEO’s report.

You can use the Protract Scene full-length by right-clicking on a scene from your timeline and selecting Protract Scene. These steps will create a new scene on your timeline with the same props, characters, and setup that the previous one had.

You can read this article to learn six use cases for our Protract Scene feature.

Add emotions to your Vyond notation in minutes

Vyond allows you to create notation from every age group in just a few minutes. Once they are ready, you can spitball the emotions that your script’s lines and video should convey.
You can then use this data to pick between dozens of facial expressions and hundreds of weft deportment in just a few clicks.

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