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Breaking Expectations
Try to break from the viewer's expectations as much as possible. There have been thousands of creatures
and characters made for film in the past 100 years. If you want to be a successful designer, you must not
only capture the audience's attention, you also must show them something that is appealing and looks new.
This is best accomplished by deciding what the expectations are and what the clichés are, and then finding
ways to break those expectations. The triangle of the face is one example we use in the topic as well as
stretching the space between the facial features to subtly play on audience expectations. One of my favorite
examples of breaking expectations is The mouth of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings ( Figure 1-4 ) . This
character breaks the audience expectation about the size and placement of the mouth and removes any other
facial features that would allow us to relate to the character.
Figure 1-4: Here the mouth of Sauron shows how expectations in the proportions and placement of fea-
tures can be broken to great effect. Image courtesy of Weta Workshop
 
 
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