The Grimace Project
March 13, 2009The nature of emotions is an ongoing scholarly debate. Over the years, many different explanations have been put forward, resulting in various emotion models. Most models are based on one of two major approaches. In the dimensional approach, emotions are being described by a small number of independent dimensions – usually two or three. For instance, the circumplex model by James Russell describes emotion via the dimensions “pleasure” and “arousal”. The categorical approach, on the other hand, assumes a finite number of basic emotions, which describe innate emotional reactions.
Grimace was based on the emotion model described in chapter 2 of Making Comics by Scott McCloud, a manual for artists how to convincingly draw facial expressions in comics. It follows the categorical approach, postulating 6 basic emotions:
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James A. Russell
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