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.

Final! For Now!

Well, here is the final for "It's Alive!!!" I've learned a tone from this one assignment and I feel that I've jumped leaps and bounds from my last shot. The whole goal was to explore more subtle and naturalistic acting and I feel I'm moving in the right direction. It's not perfect and there is plenty for me to work on, (which I will probably be doing on and off) but it's approved by Mentor, for now. Time for Dialog!

It's Alive!!! from Chris Silva on Vimeo.

Side Note: Got to give props to my buddy James O'Neill for hooking me up with this sweet render. Thanks Dude!