Excitement and how to express it throughout for character?

Excitement is a stage of euphoria and physical activation, it makes us full of adrenaline and active. The most common synonyms are euphoria, enthusiasm, frenzy, ferment. Excitement is mental but it affects the whole body and it has strong physiological responses. It is one of the main things that engages our audience.
The first thing we need to understand when it comes to expressing excitement with our animation is what is the emotion provoked by. It can come from expectancy of an event, the love of doings something etc., but it can also be fueled by another emotion as anger.
How can you pose you character in order to show excitement?



When people are happy or excited of an upcoming event or so they usually start dancing or jumping, clap excessively, rock back and forth etc. Animators usually use personification to their characters so the audience can better engage with the film. That means that their animation is mostly inspired by the feelings and emotions of the people around them or even themselves. Some of the `symptoms` of excitement you can make use of include:

• bottom lip tucked under and bitten by the teeth
• quick short hops 
• energetic movement of the hands
• shivering body 
• hands and one leg lifted up
• eyes wide open