Final Facial animation from Advanced Acting - (non-rendered)

Hello. Been a piece since I posted here, so thought I'd put up my final rendition of my facial animation assignment from my current Advanced Acting class. It looks like my last posting(s) except for the face. This assignment focused on animating in detail the mouth, brows and eyes more in depth. Also tried to smooth out the physical animation and make it less 'robotic'. Of course, as always, any feedback is more than welcome. Would be nice to hear from 'Family' for once too. ;) Also put up my facial studies from this last week and the week prior.

AM Class Intro to Acting Progress Reel.....meh!

Ok. Here's the latest version of my progress reel. My audio isn't synched the way I'd like it to be, but it still works nonetheless. After viewing a few peers PR's, I'm getting a better idea for what I will eventually like mine to look like. For now here's a rough copy as it were. This class has definitely taught me a lot concerning the minute details that lie within a successful animation and what to pay more attention to in the future. Such as 'Body Mechanics'! I really need to loosen up my animating and work more on my anticipation and overall flow of movements, hopefully this upcoming Advanced Acting class will allow a little more time for me to focus on that. Anywho, cheers!

Final draft for Intro to acting class Bash 'em!

Ok. So here is the final shot for this class of my first acting scene. It's not fully complete of course, due to the facial movements being very limited in thie particular character rig. But next class session 'Advanced Acting' I'll be carrying over this scene to a more advanced rig and finishing up the shot then. So just ignore the puppet mouth for now and any comments or criticisms please feel free to tell me, seeing as so many are left already (sarcasm). Thanks Kelly for being the only one to do so thus far. : ) Ok. Enjoy.

Dialogue Acting shots...Pick your fav!!

Oh wait...no one ever friggin' comments on my damn blog! Well for this time around, we (being the student) had to pick a few dialogue scenes that we liked that met the criteria (5-10 secs/variable shift in tone) and then act them all out, very rough-like, but putting forth the best effort nonetheless for them all. The end result will be choosing just one dialogue piece and animating it. So here are my choices. If you want to comment, go right ahead, be my guest, make my day, JUST DO IT ALREADY!!!

Intro to Acting Pantomime

Well after several weeks of working on this piece of animation for my Intro to Acting class, I have the final product ready to share. I think I'll be adding some background scenery soon (clouds, gradients, grass, trees) but for now I'll show this since I've had some friends inquiring as to how it looks. Any comments are of course welcome as always.

Final video ref for 1st acting assignment

After at least 5 different video referencing shots, I decided to do this final one. The point of the assignment is to show contrast in emotional output via a pantomimed acting sequence. The time should be at the most 11 seconds so I had to figure out how to cram in some duality within that timeframe. This is what the animated shot will look like or near enough to it, so check back in a few weeks to see the final result.

The perfunctoriness of a creative thought stifled with subconscious disturbances - An Aside

To change things up a bit and actually write an honest-to-goodness blog, I am writing as I think. Oozing onto the digital domain with buttery ease. I am trying to brainstorm my assignment for my class (Winter Acting Class3) and am finding it difficult to picture my contrasting ideas I've come up with. So I decided to draw randomly and see what comes of it. I find it rather relaxing to do so and have sometimes come up with the most bizarre little doodles when doing so. As you see below, it is nothing to oggle about, unless I were already a post-humous artiste with a name that could sell chicken-scratch for thousands. Anyway, the whole point of this is to actually utilize my current situations and then be able to animate them. It will be a pantomime since no monologue/dialogue will be used and it needs to have a distinct contrast in form going from one idea to an opposite. Due to a recent demise of a relationship that went sour quickly, it has come to me that I should animate this as a way to administer self-therapy. Mind you I am in no need of any, that I consciously am aware of, but do need to rant and bitch about it in some manner. Point of fact I am rather pissed off about how the other party has handled the whole situation and this is a perfect opportunity to rid myself of these negative feelings. So then, onward and upward as it were. The results will be seen above once I've captured something concrete that can be represented visually in 250 frames or less. In the meantime enjoy the oddball doodle and if you actually read up to this point, please comment. It lets me know that someone out there gives a whit and can actually digest my garbling. Cheerio!