CHARACTER PERFORMANCE ANIMATION
Progress Report
MAIN IDEA
A teenage girl who is very excited and happy about her final audition is spreading the good news to her friend over the call with an artful manner.
MY INSPIRATION ?
I always get inspire by stories written by my dad and I like stories too. I always wanted to incorporate my own idea and imagination on screen. Now, I got the opportunity and freedom to do it, than why not a scene from my own story? I took one dialogue, acted and recorded my voice and used it for animation.
AIM & OBJECTIVE
The aim is spreading a message that help people who need and deserve help and be human, we will loose nothing, but we don’t know what situation a person facing and dealing with in his or her life. And obviously, through this animation I like to learn animating expression and emotions and also lip-sync and the flow of body along with that emotions and sound or audio. It is not perfect yet but I know one day I will be near to perfection level, may be.
REFERENCES AND RESEARCH AND CG ASSETS
For this project, I selected the character who is very jolly and happy girl with big dreams. During my class, apart from internal tutorials provided by my supervisor, I was learning about tween machine online and I found one tutorial how to animate easily with tween machine plugins in Maya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-BUhzOCBfk
I have done lot of practice with different poses to make it handy with the rig and now I think this rig is quite flexible and easy to handle.
REFERENCE VIDEOS
During my workshops I did lots of research about entire procedure, How to accomplish a performance animation efficiently. I gone through many videos online form preproduction to Playblast and publish. Some videos were really helpful. For example;
The Secret Animation Workflow You Should Be Using, I learnt everything about Animation Layers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dAzk2oeQoA
Later, I realized that just for one character sitting and talking is simple animation so I did not feel the requirement, but it is a great tutorial I am going to use it for next project.
The 7 Workflows of Professional Animators, Its really helpful, all animators should follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTet6nd_iM
How to Animate with the Graph Editor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ31vjgJM2c
Character created for study purpose. Design and Animation: Ivan Oviedo Model: Jean Marcel Rig: James Do Carmo and Richard Kazuo https://www.facebook.com/kippcasestudio
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/388154061628409686/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/730990583248343565/
There are many internal tutorials provided by my Supervisor, but still researching online and going through some different animations done by various artists is added advantage.
CHARACTER RIG
The 3DModel/Rig used in this animation is named Jasmine Rose, she is an open source model created by Ahmed Shalaby and can be downloaded for free here:
https://shalabology.wordpress.com/free-stuffs/free-rigs/jasminerose-free-rig-for-maya/
BLOCKING KEY POSES IN MAYA
As I mentioned before, this is my own imagination and its a scene from my own story, I have acted and recorded the my own voice I already have the reference video to create the basic key poses.
VOICE OVER
I recorded some dialogue in my mobile and used it for my project. I did research how it works with the scene and what are the possibilities.
FINAL VIDEO OF CHARACTER PERFORMANCE ANIMATION
Initially, I have faced many problems and I struggled a lot during the process, at times I thought to give up with this and do something else, lol. But positively, I handled it with patience and I have done it but I wish I could have more time to polish it and give the finishing touch to make it perfect. For now, I have added the finished video on top of this page, Enjoy, and don;t forget to comment below, Thanks.