RedForty - Animated » Acting

Voltron – Blocking

Daniel — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:02:41 +0000

Week2 of this shot:
[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/uploads//2009/02/voltron_464r.mov 640 480]

More to come

Moving forward with the last shot

Daniel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:55:23 +0000

So, my first assignment is to take my last shot of last term, [post="511" text="Just Bring It"], and add facial animation.

/headdesk

I hate that shot so much! I’ve worked on it for a month and a half! UGH! This is truly a test of tenacity.

First pass:
[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/uploads//2009/01/justbringit_411r40.mov 640 480]

Class Four Begins!

Daniel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:49:03 +0000

Advanced Acting, here we come!

I’ll write more later.

*reserved*

Free Samples – pt4

Daniel — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:57:04 +0000

Alrighty then! After many, many hours. My final FreeSamples animation:

[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/uploads//2008/11/freesamples_351lg.mov 640 480]

Free Samples – pt3

Daniel — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:54:36 +0000

Ok, so after posting the previous video and getting a quite a bit of feedback, I’ve chiseled out this draft.

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:

[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/uploads//2008/10/freesamples_333lg.mov 640 480]

Free Samples – pt1

Daniel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:07:43 +0000

Ok, I settled on a name.

Here’s the first blocking pass. By the way, I’m getting faster at this. This one took about 6 hours and 4 revisions. I won’t post the revisions here; just the major milestones. Little revisions are too small to notice. Like the way his arm moves would be the cause for a revision.

So here’s the first final blocking pass:

[qt:http://animation.redforty.com/uploads//2008/10/freesamples_321lg.mov 640 480]