It has been a while i know but this shot is taking alot of time so i am putting in as much effot and time as i physically can to make it look as neat as i can. My main goal is to get the characters emotion across, the piece of dialogue i have chosen is very subtle with no big changes so i want to keep all my acting choices simple but also keep away from cliche choices.
The character we are using for the shot is called Bishop, it is the first character we get that has all the finger controls, eye control and limited facial controls. Bishop is a basic character for us to use so we can become accustom to animating a character with full body controls first, for the mouth shapes we have none so we are just concentrating on the opening and closing of the mouth and when we move into our next class that is where we get an updated Bishop rig with full facial and mouth controls, so we will be able to form the mouth shapes as well as get more emotion in the face.
I have uploaded my three passes so far for the shot (Blocking, Blocking Plus and Refining). It is really cool looking back at how the shot started and how it has changed and progressed. I still have a lot more work to do, really time to push the arcs, ease in/out, overlap etc....and also need to change the left arm it is moving way to much and it is distracting to the viewer.
Time for me now to get back to it....hard to believe only two weeks left of Animation Mentor for the year and what a year it has been...until next update.
Rock On
The character we are using for the shot is called Bishop, it is the first character we get that has all the finger controls, eye control and limited facial controls. Bishop is a basic character for us to use so we can become accustom to animating a character with full body controls first, for the mouth shapes we have none so we are just concentrating on the opening and closing of the mouth and when we move into our next class that is where we get an updated Bishop rig with full facial and mouth controls, so we will be able to form the mouth shapes as well as get more emotion in the face.
I have uploaded my three passes so far for the shot (Blocking, Blocking Plus and Refining). It is really cool looking back at how the shot started and how it has changed and progressed. I still have a lot more work to do, really time to push the arcs, ease in/out, overlap etc....and also need to change the left arm it is moving way to much and it is distracting to the viewer.
Time for me now to get back to it....hard to believe only two weeks left of Animation Mentor for the year and what a year it has been...until next update.
Rock On
