Animation Acting Challenge #6: Post Progress, Start Febuary 28 - End March 28

#61

Shane awesome job…movement very smooth…great facial and body expressions nothing I can see looks bad so far. I realize that this is a work in progress and the background and environment has to be addressed yet but looking great. great concept.

#62

Ha ha, im glad this is your fix and not something else :slight_smile:

SirRon your animation is really looking good! The sob does look like a sneeze though. I think an alternative would be to have him drop his shoulders and do the sob motion before he brings his hand to his face. Well, this may be a little bit too uncontrolled emotionally for your character, but you may want to try it and see if it works.

#63

Sorry I don’t have a tutorial for it. Oh, I made a mistake talking about MJ. It doesn’t capture images, you still have to do it yourself. Either printscreen or render each frame. I suppose if you can use fcheck to export the images that would be good. I don’t think MJ reads .iff files.

After that, yes, you can play with the timing in MJ and use Keith’s script to import the timing. Keith’s script however is not available to download.

#64

Well Keith’s script doesn’t work 100% of the time sooo I couldn’t import my timing from MonkeyJam. I’ll just have to do it manually then.

Timing

Yes, I know after he picks up the phone it’s a REALLY long pause. I’ll shorten it by a second or two. I’m fairly happy with the timing on the rest though. Now that I’ve added timing, I’ll do some more breakdowns for it. He still looks like he’s sneezing/laughing :sad: I think I’ll do a tear wipe or something with the hand other than covering the nose and mouth.

Can you believe this is still going a little faster than I expected?

Hey sphere I see you already finished with the animation, you updated your demo reel with it too! :stuck_out_tongue: One crit though, your background music is a little too loud, I can barely hear the voice track.

#65

Yeah, wanted to get it done quick cause I was sending my reel out to places. I will post it here later though. I’ve just been trying to get a lot more small animations done lately. And yeah, music can be fixed. Cheers :slight_smile:

#66

Bloody hell man.

It’s already Sunday night! My animation is stuck. I didn’t have time to tweak it this weekend. Hopefully I will try to play a bit with it tomorrow.

Well, speak you guys soon.
Diego

#67

Ronan: Hi there! Good job so far! I’ve been watching your animations, and I can definitely see improvement…so keep it up.
Whenever you pose your character, try to think in terms of drawings and make sure you know how your line of action is…doesn’t matter if the character is sitting on a chair or whaterver. And also, keep an eye on those flow lines. They are really improtant and makes a pose/drawing look more dynamic.

So, pay close attention to these details, and sometimes they are enough to take you far away from the rest of the crowd! :slight_smile:
These JPEG might help you more:

Ronan, your acting looks pretty good. However, I’m not sure why he is moving his shoulders up and down in the last part, just before picking up the photo. I don’t know, but IMO it looks kinda distracting. So, get rid of that, unless you have a pretty good reason for that kind of shoulder movement.[u]

Sphere:[/u] Hi! You’re doing well. Just keep these points in mind: 1) Avoid twinning!! I think your poses are twinning quite a lot. Twinning should be avoided unless you have a pretty good reason for it!

  1. Work on his eyes! The way he moves his eyes (last part), isn’t looking too pretty at the moment. Its kinda looking floaty and in the last couple of drawings, I don’t see his eyelids. Eyes are really important, as thats the part where audiance look at.

hope this helps! You all are doing great!
-A

#68

Thanks Amrit! Good crit. :slight_smile: About the shoulders moving up and down, that part of the animation I’m having a hard time with. He’s crying. I think that’s a really good reason for it, but I’m having a hard time showing that he’s crying. I’ve added another part after that where he covers his face and wipes his eye.

#69

Cheers Amrit for those crits. I’ll be tweaking the scene a bit more :slight_smile:

#70

Ronan, perhaps you are having trouble with the crying because you are trying to make it subtle. Maybe you should exaggerate it more. It’s not what you want, but if you do that, perhaps you can find ways to make it subtle afterwards? I will have an update in a day or two. I have begun blocking in the lipsyncing part.

BTW, what do you use to make your GIF’s?

#71

I think I just need to try more ways to get him to cry. Like maybe not have the shoulders not be the main movement and use the head instead or something. Thanks for the suggestion.

I use Adobe Imageready to make the gifs.

#72

Perhaps sad eyes and quivering lips? Anyways, just giving some hopefully fresh ideas. Take them with a grain of salt.

#73

So I finallly admitted to myself that I bit off more than I can chew (even without such a close deadline, or any kind of deadline for that matter). What I’ve got so far is 18 seconds long and it’s just the lead-up to the “ganging up on me” line. It’s not done by a long shot, there are still lots of areas where limbs pass through obstacles and the like, but I thought I’d post it at this point so I could find out if it’s still funny. I’m so used to it that it no longer makes me laugh.

Oh yeah, and I haven’t animated the main guy’s facial expressions yet.

http://www.nathandunlap.brickfilms.com/WIP/CGtalksession2/LGM_Lurch_playblast01.mov

It’s a 1.8 megabyte quicktime file.

Thanks for any critique.

LGM

#74

LGM thats cool man! The eye roll came out too linear, you probably havnt turned that to spline yet. Too bad you havnt animated the audio yet, i cant wait to see it when you do.

#75

hi guys… u’ll are doing really gud… as i said earlier im working on the ‘addams’, n im using 2 characters… the pakageman n elvis… (Hope its not a prob)… been a lil busy over the weekend but i’ll send in a WIP soon… im working with maya 6.0 and Sirron how do u give an animated gif to be put up 4 the viewers? pls help…

#76

shajijoseph: I use Adobe Imageready to make the gifs then upload to www.photobucket.com

#77

LGM you made a short-movie and not a scene! Ahahah

I will try to post my progress tonight.

See you guys,
Diego

Like I promissed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNi04395Ck

Adding arcs.

Feedbacks please!

Cheers,
Diego

#78

I did some changes with the crying, but now I think it’s too short. I’ll have him cry in his hand a bit longer. Man, I’m pretty depressing am I? :stuck_out_tongue:

Pass 2

Also I’ve added some eye movement when he’s listening to the phone. I didn’t go over the poses that Amrit suggested though, I’ll do that next time.

diegooriani: Looking good. But right after the “run” line he hits the standing pose too fast. Keep working at it, hope to see it finished.

BTW everyone, we have a week left to finish this. And I’m still working on the poses! :eek:

#79

SirRon,

I will keep it in mind. Tonight probably I will do some tweaking.

Cheers!

About your problem with the crying act. It is dificult someone start and finish to cry so fast. Maybe he can still be cry when gets the picture or better, get more sad and mody. Depends how far you wanna go with this.

See you,
Diego

#80

I’d like to participate in this challenge, but I think joining starting today might be a little late in the game. I wonder if you guys are going to do another challenge just after this one is done? I love the Adam’s Family quote by the way.