Kramer acting dialog

[Ismail]

Hey, Adam

Looks cool so far. MY opinion here. This is the pose test right and not the final shot. So here goes. :)

Since you got some tweaking on the function curve to go through here's my two cents, it comes at the end of the dialogue. A more stronger pose for when he says "Holds it," more of an arch in his back for this. Here's where you can go from straight to curved in your transition. "Holds it" Straight pose(arch in back of course "and then" curl the spine forward (curved shape) and finish off the dialogue. :)

Your poses are great so far. :) It's just the timing of hitting the verbal beats and slightly pushing the arcs in the spine on some poses. :) . :) Kramer is a fun character to do dialogue to. :)

My two cents of course. :)

THanks for sharing the work. :)

Hope I'm making some sense here. :)

[mstram]

Can somone have a look and let me know how it all looks before I move on with more splyning and offseting.

thanks

Adam

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~aj400/k_golf_new_poses38_Large.mov

LOL ! Looks great !

I remember that episode, looks like you got Kramer's backswing exactly, if I remember :) .. the bent elbows were distinctive.

I'm a golf nut and have toyed with golf swings with every 3d package that I've played with, but have never finished doing one ;)

Btw, you can make the model look smoother, but clicking on the PM icon, then changing the smooth setting in the channel box from 0 to 1 ... unless you already knew that :)

Mike

[staple04]

Thanks everyone for the comments. I will post an update soon.

Adam

[staple04]

I have tweeked the begining a little bit and the middle. Still working on the rest

Adam

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~aj400/k_golf_new_poses39_Large.mov

[SFR75]

Great job! Very, very nice..
I'm sure you can't hear this Kramer speech anymore.
BTW: how did you work on it ? Video in one window
and maya in the other ?

[staple04]

Hey Mikhail

thanks for your comments,

In the process of working on this I listned to the track nuber of times to get to feel and understand each word. Than shoot a hole bunch of refrance, look at it. Sketched a hole bunch of ideas to push the silhuettes more and just started to pose the guy. Blocked it, add breakdowns and so on. I also watched Seinfeld almost every day since the beginning of the summer to understand better Kramers Character:)

Adam

here is an update
http://hiddengraphics.com/k_golf_new_poses42_A_Large.mov

[SFR75]

Serious, man. Nice to find that there is more to quality work, than just pure copying.
Nice new version - nice ending this time.
Also - something strange caught my attention in this version. The left hand is doing
something strange around between frame 70 and 100. Some fast jerky movement.
It's probably the transition from frame 88 to 89. Maybe I'm wrong, but do you see
what you are talking about. Or you did it on purpose ?

[staple04]

Mikhail, you are correct, about your observation. I did it on purpuse, but now I understand that this transition may be too fast or feel too jerky. Super good. I appreciated man. Definitly will work things out in the following version. At the moment I am trying to get as much feed back as possible from diffrent individuals. Your feed back is great.

Adam

[SFR75]

Actually, I forgot to tell you that I like it. When I first saw it, I thought he is doing something like very fast 360 degree flip or circle. It looked cartoonish and somewhat unrealistic. To me that what makes animation interesting and lively. But since it was the only instance of such
movement in your movie, I wasn't sure if that was done on purpose or not.

[staple04]

Thanks Mikhail,
Will contiune to work out things
Adam

[inaktive]

i really like it, would like to see updates on it. Or the final if you have it done..

impressive.

-Brian-

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