Another Polishing Pass

Hey Guys,

Here's another polishing pass of my shot. We had a break last week, but I felt that I'd get a bit of a head start and polish up my shot some more. I added the jaw movement, added/changed the eye animnation and I changed up a few things to simplify and clarify. I feel that it's working better.

Now that the summer quarter has begun, I can start animating the face! I'm really excited to get started. Speaking of the new quarter, I have a new mentor Morgan Kelly. I hope to get a lot out of this class since he has a tone of industry experience and he is also an instructor for Cal Arts. I'm looking forward to this quarter.

Second Splining Pass

Note to self... Acting is HARD! Here is the second pass of my monologue shot. If you can tell, I've changed up the beginning a bit. I've also made a more refined pass of the eye's and hands, which surprisingly are fun to animate. I still have a good amount to work on and... some pretty big changes. "So much time and so little to do."



Also, the final hand pose for the term.

Surprised:

First Spline Pass... uuuuugh

Here is the first spline pass of my monologue shot. As you can see, I know how to make mashed potatoes! because this looks like mush :) Granted, I only had about three days to push this out since I was having an AWESOME time in San Francisco, but no excuses. Hopefully next week I will have a tighter pass... let's hope.



And just for the heck of it, Hand poses. (Along side our animation, we need to do hand poses demonstrating certain emotions.)

Anger:


Relaxed:

ReBlock

Next pass at my monologue shot. I changed up the camera a bit to frame the bug a little better. Also added a few more breakdowns and tweaked some poses. Next pass... I'm hoping... is going to be splined out. We will see.

You aren't Privy... Blocking

Well, it wasn't easy, but I made my decision on what dialog clip I'm going to animate to. I should of known which one I was going to go with since it was the funnest clip to shoot reference for. So much fun, I'm posting it on my blog.... how embarrassing.

Warning: If your offended by foul language... then go away!



It was a blast and it was the last dialog clip I shot reference for... go figure.

Translating it to animation was just as fun. This is my first blocking pass.



I still have a long ways to go, but it's getting there.