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In this lesson I'm going to be talking about static and dynamic forms. And it's a pretty important lesson

and we want to get this concept into our minds before we move on to doing the forms of the body. Just

like we have static and dynamic shapes that we learned about in module 2,

we have static and dynamic forms.

So for example the sphere presently, if you were to ask which direction it's moving in, it's pretty unclear,

like, we don't really know which direction it's moving in, it's basically not moving in any direction.

But if you were to imagine this as a ball of clay and we started building it into some kind of weird

shape, maybe narrower the top wider at the bottom.

So we kind of stretched out, we start adding directionality to the shape.

And that then turns this 3D shape, this form, into a directional form, or a dynamic form.

So the form now has directionality.

It's no longer static.

It appears that the shape of the form or the general structure of the form, has some kind of directionality

to it.

Let's take a cube for example.

If we were to draw a cube,

just a typical cube.

That's a very isymmetric cube. In terms of the directionality of its form.

The form itself doesn't really have directionality to it.

However as we start bending and changing things about this cube, we can mess with its structure really,

and give it a sense of directionality by bending its sides and making it more malleable in a sense.

So now the cube is kind of stretching back this way.

Let's do another example. Cylinder's in particular are something we will be using to do a lot of the elements

of the human form.

This is a typical cylinder drawing. I'm drawing through here. We can imagine this is the back side of

the bottom cylinder, and we can see the top and the front sides. But take the cylinder and start bending

its components.

So I'll bend one, I'll make one side the cylinder smaller and one side of the cylinder bigger and link

those two sides together.

We now have a bend in the form and it appears to be moving in a direction whereas this type of cylinder

once again has no directionality.

So in this instance, what we essentially have, are static forms- forms that do not appear to have any directionality

or movement to them. And dynamic forms- forms that do appear to have some kind of directionality and some

kind of movement to them.

So as we move forward into doing the forms of the body, you will see how we take static forms and convert

them to dynamic forms.

And this is really to help you understand the basic form, and then how we bring that form into more of

a believable, living type of form.

Right a more dynamic living kind of form that moves and changes, as we have with characters.

All right let's move on to the next lesson.