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3.17 Week 17 Advanced & Experimental Project 2

Week 17: Lip Syncing – Blocking

Introduction

This week, I started working on my lip-syncing animation: customizing my character rig, setting up my Maya scene and creating the blocking animaiton.

Character Rig

Customizing a Character Rig

For the audio I have chosen, I needed to use a male character in his midlife.

So, I decided to buy the customizable ‘Ricardo’ rig and edited his appearance into an office man, with white hair, beard and glasses.

Work Methodology

Setting up Maya

First, I imported my reference video into the Maya scene and then I placed the audio in the time slider.

Then, in order to start with the blocking process, I created the key poses of the character.

Blocking Animation

Blocking Animation

I created the blocking animation for the character’s body and facial expressions (eyes and eyebrows).

However, I will start animating the mouth once I work in splines.

Feedback Animation

I definitely need to create keys for each part of the body as the character moves as a whole.

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3.17 Week 17 Advanced & Experimental Project 2

Week 17: Animated Artefact – Intro & Credits

Introduction

This week, I focused on creating my credits for my animated artefact. I used Buster Keaton’s intro and outro scene as a visual reference for my own design.

Intro & Final Credits

Buster Keaton Reference

In order to design my intro scene, I used Buster Keaton’s credits as a reference, as I wanted to include an intro scene that portrayed the idea of silent films.

Intro Scene

In my intro scene, I present the name of my short episode, using a slab serif typeface named Good Bad Man, as it communicates the look and feel of cinema credits.

In addition, I also included some details on the course and University I am attending to, replicating the content structure of Buster Keaton’s intro scene.

I also wanted to include the final credit ‘The End’ as it was widely used in the 1960s, especially in Hanna-Barbera cartoon animations.

Finally, I also added some ornaments on the frame and a texture as I wanted to create a grainy silent film background.