Effective presentations

Our effective presentations lecture was very useful I think, here's what I learnt.
-only include meaningful information, keep it concise or it will get boring.
-Know your audience so you know what kind of language to use and tone of voice.
-Assume they know very little
- inform them what you are doing and who you are.
-be professional
-tell a story in chronological order
-the presentation is not about you-how you dress or sound- it's about the content.
-the presentation should not be stressful, as long as you are prepared for it
-keep it simple.
-don't use clip art.
-Use imagery to illustrate a point when necessary,
-Don't use too much text, you will bore people and no one will read it.
-avoid bullet points
-if your stressing, stop and think what you need to say
-be enthusiastic
-if you make a mistake correct it and carry on
-use cue cards/notes if you need it but don't just read a script as you loose the life.
-don't leave it till the last minute

-PRACTICE
-make sure it works
-offer a Q and A

All of these are very useful tips that I will use in my presentations in the future, many of which I was aware of already but I did learn some new ones.

Mirror image

I just found this on Sqwigly, it's not a full animation it's more about the animation process. It's about Sean Gregory's main second year animation. He is from the South of Wales. I found it really interesting it shows the way they animated it using replacement faces for all different facial expressions and vowels etc that they can just switch in and out seamlessly. I think that is such a cleaver idea! It's done using stop motion and after effects mainly. They used green screening processes too. I just love this idea of swapping the face instead of editing it. However I feel that possibly this could ruin some effects because it might look too much the same. I guess real people do that though , everyone has sort of their own set of facial expressions. 
Some of his influences include Pixar, The Flynn twins, Paranorman, nick park- some of which i have never heard of so i might have a look.
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/showcase/mirror-image-production-showreel/

This image is from Paranorman. This also uses this technique but in this they used a 3D printer to create each face as a whole as you can see on the image below. So clever! must have taken forever but i think it would speed up the overall process.

Some animators do the facial parts separately like this image which is from Coroline. Each new facial feature is just clipped into place. So interesting!!!!