A lot of animators always tell me that it is very hard to show emotion of the character if it is armless, expressionless, or no background for it to perform in. Well, you can always show emotion through body langauge, rhythm, squash and stretch, etc. True enough, music, sound effect, light and props do amplified the emotion, but try to get it right through animation so that when you put them together, the emotional of the character will be stronger.
I found a very good example of using just pixels and sound effect to show emotion of the character. By adding just squash and stretch, rhythm and sound, you can actually feel that the pixels has a life by itself. Even without sound, You can also tell what is happening in the scene.
Love Sport was done by StudioAKA.
Love Sport - Paintballing from Qoob TV on Vimeo.
True that. Even a bouncing ball can have emotions and that's just one mesh and one controller! So it's always possible to give the smallest object character and emotion.
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