Sunday, September 11, 2011

Acting Exercise

Acting exercise, scroll down for earlier iterations of the animation=)



Acting Exercise
Polish Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 7hrs


*Added details to facial expressions, fingers and lip sync. Cleaning up the overall body movements.

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Acting Exercise
Spline Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 5hrs


*Changed some acting choices and added more breakdowns and cleaned up the arcs and splines.

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Acting Exercise
Blocking+ Breakdowns Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 4hrs


*Added breakdowns and in-betweens.

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Acting Exercise
1st Blocking Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 4.5hrs

*Blocked in the main poses.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Body Mechanics Exercise

Body mechanics exercise, scroll down for earlier iterations of the animation=)



Body Mechanics
Refining Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 1hrs


*Got some feedback from friends and made some tweaks to timing and popping in the animation.

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Body Mechanics
Polish Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 5hrs


*Cleaned up the arcs and splines, added details to fingers and further tweaks to the jump, adjusting the trajectory of the jump. Cleaning up the poses.

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Body Mechanics
Spline+ Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 2.5hrs


*Cleaned up the curves and readjusted some timing and poses.


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Body Mechanics
Spline Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 2hrs


*Simplified the arm swings during the jump further as it is a bit distracting. Fixed loads of gimbal locking in the upper arm.

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Body Mechanics
Re-Block + Breakdowns
Time Taken - Approximately 6hrs


*Got some feedback from friends, and decided to keep the actions in the jump more simple. Toned down certain parts, especially the anticipation before he jumps. The height of the jump was toned down as well, and made the jump a more "forward thrusting" jump as it is more realistic this way.

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Body Mechanics
Blocking Pass
Time Taken - Approximately 12hrs