Animation Practice 2

Task 1 : Lipsync


This was the dialogue which attracts me most because of the strong voice. I chose this character because it exactly suits with the attitude of the character and also to the voice. I have taken a self video referencing for this shot and especially for the lipsync. This is the first time i am doing a lipsync with twisting a mouth shape in various places rather than moving it in straight and i guess it is synchoronized well through out the scene.


I made a rough layout for this shot and also fixed up the medium camera angle which shows that character is sitting on the chair and reading newspaper. Then he realise something happens and reacts to it, finally he speak the dialogue "stop breathing down my neck".


The layout for this shot is given below;

The Final Output of Task 1









Task 2 : Presenter



This is the quite interesting shot with two person talking each other, the original video which my tutor gave was a ventriloquy stage show, where the ventriloquist interacts with his puppet(which is the ventriloquist himself) and the puppet responds.
This skit is based on the famous knock knock jokes, here is the dialogue between them,

person 1: knock knock....you say who is there
person 2: ahh...
person 1: i say knock knock, you say who is there?
person 2: but it is you Dave.
person 1: no, thats part of the joke, i say knock knock, you say who is there....knock knock
person 2: i know its you
person 1: no teddy.

I thought it would be better to take two character into this particular situation instead of represent the same puppet style. I directed the scene according to the two characters and I took the video reference for my animation. Here i made a conversation between the two characters which one is like a realistic type and the other one is little cartoony style. I had taken the video references seperately for each characters. After several tryouts, finally i chose my reference which is displayed below;


This is the reference for the main character;








This is the reference for the secondary character;







After the live footage was recorded, i drawn an extreme poses for my animation. This shot doesn't have big body movements for both the characters but it was demanded more on acting side so i focused more on expression part to give the emotional feel. The sketches for this sequence are drawn below;

I have taken both video and sketches as my references then i started my animation. At first in the blocking stage the extreme poses came out pretty well and when adding inbetweens it was really difficult to hold the character whenever there is no dialogue, so i made the character to react with the audience by looking at them intentionally. After the several feedback from my tutor and my friends, my animation gets polished better and better and finally it came out pretty well in the end.


Here is the Final Output of Task 2

Task 3 : Dance




The dance which i chosen was "Cassie- me and you", it is a Hip-Hop song which has fast movements in the body. In animation point of you, this dance sequence comes under pose to pose animation because the actions are taken place very fastly. This was the different exercise for me to animate the character which had an extreme poses came at every 4 to 6 frames through out the end, which was really challenging one for me to animate.

In the original video three girls were dancing for this song and i chosen a boy and a girl instead to attract the viewers. I staged this sequence in order to see both the characters so i placed the characters parallely and fixed up a camera showing it in a long shot. The video reference is very clear because it was captured in a front angel so that i can see the each and every movements clearly. The video reference are linked below and i had taken first 20 seconds from this video footage.







I have drawn the extreme poses from the video reference and i learned so many things while drawings this particular scene. I have got lot of poses to draw on this scene and those poses were very strong and i enjoyed drawings these sequence in particular. Those drawings are given below;

While animating the character it is very difficult to maintain the emotion of the character throught out the end and it is very particular about dance sequences. Unfortunately i did not get any feedback from my tutor for this scene because i started this quite late. I chosen a white backdrop because it will give a good feel for dance movements and i also gave reflection and shadows to attracts the scene more and more. Here the final output are linked below;






Here is the Final Output of Task 3