Non-verbal communication is actually more important that the
spoken words, sending 70% of the message. Usually is through gestures and facial
expressions or sometimes through actions, and all of these are showing what the
character is really thinking.
In acting is essential and those things are exaggerated so
the audience can get them easy, but is more important in animation where kids
don’t necessary get all the verbal jokes for example.
People actually enjoy watching a character saying something
but because of the body language it is obvious that he doesn’t mean it. So this
contradiction of dialogue and how he is communicating non-verbally is creating
a funny moment, making the audience get what the character is really thinking.
There are some typical movements like hands gestures or
shaking the head, posture is always important and also the eye contact. Some
examples of culture-specific non-verbal communication: popular stereotypes of Italians
involving big gestures, lots of hand waving or loud shouting, in English
speaking countries the thumbs up for approval (which is considered offensive in
other cultures).
There are plenty of advanced gestures that are communicating
for example that a character is lying or he tries to remember something (eyes
going on the left or the right corner), or that he is offensive or defensive,
introvert or extrovert only by observing which hand is below the other when he
has his arms crossed.
Non verbal communication doesn’t require dialogue, but a
dialogue is always is need of body language.
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