Performing to a Song

[tyree]

one thing you can do is overlay your animation over the original, you can also put the original in a video editor it should have something like find edges which will give you nothing but edges which might make it easier to see the motions

[charleslin]

If I were to take up a task like this I think the first thing I would do is lock myself up in a room by myself, record myself on film and go through the emotions myself as I sang. Then I would recall those emotions in my mind and sketch out the main story-telling poses I want to make sure I achieve on paper. I then review the film and see if there are any subtlties I can incorporate into my thumbnail sketches. Then I would burn those thumnail sketches in my brain and then record myself re-enacting the song making sure I nail those gestures and poses in my sketches. Once I get like 2 satisfactory takes, I convert those into quicktime format and study the timing by scrubbing through the slider, making sure I keep in mind what pose and emotions need to be at what frames. (quick time is so indispensible for fram-by-frame playback). Then I get to blocking out my animation using the quicktime reference. Once the first pass is blocked out, I compare it against my reference to make sure the poses and the emotions stick perfectly with the timing of my quicktime reference. Then I have a few people look at it to make sure it reads to anyone "other" than me. Then I make adjustments based on the critiques, and then move on to the next pass. Rinse and repeat.

I hope this helps lol.

Good luck!

[indipops]

Thanks, that's i've done a bit of the filming already, but i shall get to it in some more depth. The scrubbing through thing would be so much easier then the slow-mo camera option :D, sounds like common sense, but i think that went out the window when i was trying to learn everything at once hehe.

Thank you a lot, really appreciate it!

Indi

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