American Sign Language animations
Beth Lula combined her individualized animation major with her study of the American Sign Language for her final animation project.
She studied the portrayal of ASL in animations and created three of her own.
The first animation (shown above) is based on a scene from the movie “The Shape of Water.”
Lula created the second animation from her own imagination. She drew on video footage of a seagull swallowing a hot dog as reference for the dragon’s swallows, and she had her mother hold a plate and pretend to eat food.
The third animation translates audio from a scene in the movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” ASL lecturer Heath Goodall recorded a video of himself signing the scene’s dialogue, and Lula used the video as reference for the animation.