Final Animation!

This assignment made me realize just how difficult it is to get animation just the way you want it, especially when you include the eyes, hands, and lipsync. When you fix one thing, it seems like endless other issues pop up. Overall, I am really enjoying character animation. It takes a long time and is tedious, but nothing compares to making something come to life. Its very gratifying to see acting choices and body mechanics begin to work, when it was just a stiff model. I am definitely going to do my thesis in 3d. It is much easier to make changes and I think it will work better with the story i'm trying to tell. I still have a lot of work to do on this scene, but I should be able to get it to a decent state by the time it's due.

Linear Final

Linear 2

Working in Linear

After changing all my curves to linear, I realized how difficult it is to work in linear without tons of breakdowns. It always takes a little while to get used to thinking in linear after working in a more 2d-like stepped environment. I had to go in and duplicate some poses in order to achieve holds and to not get some super floaty animation, but over all it's looking okay. Not good, but okay. I may keep going back to stepped to add some more in betweens because i find it quite annoying to try and create appealing poses with everything moving all over the place with equal timing. We'll see as I keep refining the curves.

Lesson taken away: do as much in stepped as possible before switching over. It makes things a lot easier for me at least, and I can spend less time trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Curves

Some curves and a short 16 frame clip. Still lots of work to go!

Drawovers and poses

Camera Angles!

Camera 1

Camera 2

Camera 3

Camera 1 (Focal Length:92) : Camera 1 shows both characters and presents a good view of the main character. This way the viewer can see the emotions on her face and also see that she is talking to someone else in the scene.

Camera 2 (Focal Length: 35): Camera 2 shows both characters more clearly. The advantage of this view is that we can see the reaction of the second character.

Camera 3 (Focal Length: 35): Camera 3 shows only the main character. We can focus on her because there is no other distractions in the scene.

My favorite camera angle is camera angle 1. It presents a good view of the main character as well as letting the viewer know that there is another character in the scene. There are also leading lines to the character's face so that the viewer's eye is drawn to her acting.

Acting selects for CTAN 301!

Here are some clip choices for my CTAN301 project!

Little Miss Sunshine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_oHIUCp_TY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FiyVUPuvxU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-44SDd6pts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44PVdjYcqEY

Crazy Stupid Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZi1gTf83NQ

Kick Ass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uQOkA8zuMk

Excited to get started on some acting!