This isn’t even the whole shot. He has yet to say “Thank you!”.
[See post to watch QuickTime movie]]]> http://animation.redforty.com/animationmentor/just-bring-it-pt3/feed/ 1 http://animation.redforty.com/animationmentor/just-bring-it-pt2/ http://animation.redforty.com/animationmentor/just-bring-it-pt2/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:31:23 +0000 Daniel http://animation.redforty.com/?p=476 My second messy blocking pass for this:

Not much to say…

Except I hate it. Blegh.

Here’s the Hand Pose of this week. ANGRY.

Here’s what I turned in:

In the last Q&A, my Mentor Nick Bruno has praised a student’s assignment from his previous class as the “winner from the first time he heard the audio”. I know it’s not a competition. There are no winners. He acknowledged that as well. What he said was that clip of audio had enough acting in it for it to be interesting. Watch it with your eyes closed - he’s right. The thing to take away from this example is this: Choose audio that’s interesting. Make sure it contains contrast. Enough highs and lows to have contrast. Some speed-up, and some slow-down. Try to find some with dirt in it. Dirt is the little pauses and stutters and nuances that are gifts to the animators. Little pools of silence to allow a beat of physical interest.

This week, we need to go out and find 3 clips to present as our assignment. They must meet the criteria from above, lest they be a weak choice.

More sites:

• MovieWavs.com
• TheFreeSite.com
• WavCentral.com
• SimplyTheBest.net/sounds/
• MovieSounds.com
• WavSite.com

So here’s my top10 list. Bear in mind, I can only turn in 3. Tell me your favorites.

http://2danimationacademy.blogspot.com/2008/04/ken-duncan-jane-rough-animation-from.html

http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/Moderncartoons/Disney/Janecleanclipsml.mov

can we record our own?

where do you get clips?

dirt in dialogue - pauses and hesitations.

no famous clips that instantly identify the source

idea - batman interrogation

http://nickytwoshots.blogspot.com/2007/07/some-face-stuff.html

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/

http://www.aintitcool.com/

http://john-nevarez.blogspot.com/

http://www.theastonishfactory.blogspot.com/

http://www.kunkelshazam.blogspot.com/

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog

http://carlosbaena.com/index.html

http://www.sabudesign.com/cattywampus/?cat=22

http://handdrawnnomadzone.blogspot.com/

http://www.leifjeffers.com/ramblings/2006/06/hands.html

http://www.leifjeffers.com/ramblings/2006/08/more-hands.html

acetate

Lol, my notes are just random jots. Don’ worry about it.

I had to simplify it quite a bit. Going from blocking to spline is a horrible transition that I’m still trying to manage. A silver-bullet technique would be quite helpful here, but alas, there is none. You just have to roll up the sleeves, toss back a redbull and stay up till 8am the next morning to get it finished.

As you can see, I changed a bunch of the poses. Toward the end, he was getting a bit too out of control with the head swinging everywhere whilst getting sick. Last week’s Q&A, Bruno mentioned that everyone know he’s going to get sick after he drinks the concoction, so the faster it happens, the better. So, now it goes from a reaction (the slowdown) to a straight-up “omygodimgonnapuke” pose - then release.

Other actions were removed. Like looking back at the sign while stopping, looking back at the sign while getting sick, rolling the head around, sniffing the drink before drinking, and probably more. Simple is better in this case. The audience must be able to read everything going on easily. When I splined it, it got really muddy.

Anyhoo, I’m done vomiting my changelog. Here it is: