Eric Idle Lip-sync..

[nottoshabi]

The link does nto work

[Frelp]

Mmm. Seems like it works occasionally! I tried it twice, failed the first time, worked the second (R-click and save target as).


I'll try and sort out another link if that still doesn't work.

[Frelp]

Should work now. I've edited my original post with the new link.

..but here it is again for old time's sake.. http://files.benwiggs.com/Boxy.zip

[disrupt]

Hey not too bad but I don't feel that your acting choices go well with this clip. I think he should be much more enthusiastic. It would also help to have him speaking to another character, you know "nudging" him or something. By just having him stand there in the middle of an empty room, you are staring off harder than it needs to be. I just mean think about staging it more interestingly. Sit him at a table, maybe he is at a bar sitting next to his buddy. I don't mean that you need to model a scene, you could just have a cube for a table. But if his legs aren't doing anything interesting then there is no real need to have them in the shot. I think you need to spend some more time planning the staging, and sketching a whole bunch of poses to experiment with acting choices that match the feeling of the audio better.

[Frelp]

Yeah, I guess I've gone for the slightly more restrained approach. Think it's as a result of picturing the original clip while I was doing it, in which his motions are pretty restrained. Might be worth trying it with a more 'enthusiastic' edge to his movements. I like the idea of adding a nudge-ee and some sort of basic set too.

[kevinw]

I think you're too floaty. Try defining your poses more and holding them. You just flow from one pose to the next without any driving force or reason. Use the dialogue to determine the timing for the whole body. I think in this case you should forget everything you know about the original clip and make it your own.
Check out the tutorial section on this site. Read the pose to pose tutorial. (at least twice) And while your at it read the rest of his tutorials. It WILL help you!
www.keithlango.com (http://www.keithlango.com)

Good luck and keep at it!

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