Task 3: Two-Person Dialogue Sequence ANIMATION

 In this sequence we were suppose to create a two-person dialogue sequence for the 11 second club. Which required to create portray the mood, personality and relationship of the two characters
through their acting performance, facial expression and body language.

 After getting the audio from the 11second club with the help of my friend i did video shooting from the Green screen studio for my concept. It was a nice experience to see different ideas for the same dialogues.  Siobhan Fenton guided us for the acting skills. And had given some good suggestion and comments.

 The dialogue given was from an old movie. By hearing this dialogue according to me the character could be funny and straight forward guy. So i planned to make the conversation between a servant and a landlord. And i made the situation in the dining table where the landlord is drinking coffee and the servant is standing to explain his innocents.

 By the help of video reference i started to do blocking and animation.

 After getting the feedback the finally completed my task 3 animation successfully.  

Task 2: MIME ANIMATION

This task was very new for me.I have never tried mime in my life time but this is the nice task which brings a wide idea about mime . While i was searching for the concept for this task, i saw Marcel Marceau's stage show of mime and i was impressed by the way how he delivered the concept which he really wants to tell and its very easy to understand what he doing on the stage . So i decided to take a small concept of Marcel for my mime task

Even though i selected the concept of Marcel i planed to do the mime in my style so i started to collect  many information about mime and the ideas which all shared by my tutor was also given me hands to start my mime animation .

The concept is about a server and the customer. I planned to make dual performance by a single character, means a single character will be performing as server and customer

In order to start my first step for the mime animation, i have drawn the storyboard and sketches for the concept which i took and this is the story board which i had created for the mime animation

In further i planned to do this mime in four shots and started doing the blocking with my own reference.

In the first shot i introducing the character which is going to perform the mime on the stage. In this shot he is getting ready to serve for the customer.



In the second shot he walks to the place where the customer will be seated .



In the third shot he will start to serving the food.



In the forth shot the customer is reacting for the food and he will struggle to handle the food and finally he will  taste it



After getting feedbacks from my friend  i added some more stuffs which gives better look  to my animation .In addition to this i planned to add music to this file which gives a smooth touch to the mime .
This is my final output for the task 2

Acting for Animation:Objective, Action + Obstacle: Going up the Stairs

  This task was pretty good and different. The concept for my upstairs climbing animation was based on a cleaner. First shot starts with the character mopping the floor near to a stairs. A fire extinguisher is kept near to him attached to the wall.  He will smell something and will think for a while and leave it. Suddenly fire alarm goes on. Character will get tensed and looks all around, down and up of stairs. By taking the fire extinguisher he will run through the stairs.ence
  However, Their was a shooting session for us to help in animation to get reference. We had done it in groups by helping each other by hearing their ideas and shooted from different camera angles.Video references have helped very much in my animation.

 As planned in the upstairs climbing animation concept i created a storyboard, which had contained more detailed idea for the same animation by adding extra parts. A good storyboard has a great role in making a good animation , so i tried to make a fine storyboard. As far as i feel, i have achieved in doing it.

  I had divide by shots into five to make it more easier to animate. And i did my blocking stage for the animation as first step.
  In first shot character is mopping near to a stairs, a pleasant expression in his face. He is using a mop stick as props.



 In the next shot he smells something and will think for a moment. Then starts working again, he is least bothered about it, again concentrating on his work.

Acting for Animation

 For the Task 1 for this module i have got some ideas regarding the climbing stairs animation, I have planned to animate an obese character, trying to climb a long escalator which is not working. His aim is to reach up and because of his obesity he is unable to climb fast.  As he is about to reach up, escalator starts working and takes him down again because he was climbing the escalator which comes down. As he reaches down he feels depressed thinking that all his efforts went in vain. 


 I would like to get some feedback for my idea for this animation. So that i can improve my work.

ANIMATION PRACTICE 2 "DANCE"

As it was the third task for the Animation Practice 2, it was pretty interesting and exciting. It was to animate a dance sequence. I planed to do a solo sad performance which was made by a soul of a character, who passed his life without fulfilling his wishes.

According to the situation i started to search for the music and finally i was impressed with the music which i founded on the youtube. It is a sad violin music which was perfectly matching for the mood.




 As per the concept  i stared to work on the preproduction,basically sketches and i created the storyboard. I selected the character MORPHIS Rig which is  very flexible for the dance to animate. Then i started to work on my blocking. And continued in finishing the animation by adding in betweens. Since there is no lipsync, i tried to create the mood with extreme poses of sadness with the help of some analysis of dance steps. But it was really tough to create the mood with the steps and i made it as challenge to myself by completing this animation.

This is the animated video which was done by me for the dance. I really enjoyed while working on this. And got impressed by the music and I am in a plan to move further to explain my feelings which i had while hearing this music with the help of my animation. I hope that i will do my best to finish this Animation successfully with my full effort. 

ANIMATION PRACTICE 2 "LIP-SYNC"

 The first task of the Animation Practice 2 module, Lip-sync, was a good task in which i learned many things about syncing lips with audio which was given. I got many references from the youtube and from some websites about how to do the lip-sync for an audio. After getting enough knowledge about the lip-syncing then i started on my lip sync task .


 The audio which I took was suggested by my tutor " THIS IS THE END, THE ABSOLUTE END". I chosen the character SERICO, because of many reason especially Rig. It was easy to do the lip-sync with this character and it was suitable with its physical appearance to this dialogue.

While hearing the modulation of the dialogue it resembles to be rude,anger and a decision makingo and seems to be delivered by a superior person.So after analysing the dialogue i planed to do the animation with the SERICO character which is more suitable for this dialogue delivery.

Then i started to block the extreme poses and i set key for the lipsync with the help of reference which i got from the youtube and the sites.Once when i did with the lip-sync i got feedback  from my tutor and from my friends .After that i started to work on the corrections which are pointed out .

in this shot i planed to pan the camera to front in order to make the sequence a bit interesting  and i did the lighting to create the environment for the situation and for the render output .

This is  the video which i animated for the lip-sync .its really a good task for me to improve my lip sync skill
and i learned too...

ANIMATION PRACTICE 2 "PRESENTER"

This is the audio file which i selected for my animation practice 2 ,presenter task. I preferred this video specially because of Mr.bean(Rowan Atkinson) ,he is good at his stage performance and the way of delivering dialogues is impressive. I am proud to say that ,i am one of his fans. I got influenced by his plays. When my tutor suggested to do this video for the task, i planed to do it in a different way by adding some of my own creativity in it.I planed it to do it as a sequence which is happening at hell. I thought of giving a pro with it to make it more attractive. Then i started to work on my storyboard after this.

I planed to do the sequence in five shots. I edited the sound using Adobe Premier Pro then i started to fix the camera angle and friezed the shot and i started to work on my Animation blocking with the help of my own reference video. When i completed the blocking i asked feedback from the friends and i started with breakdown keys. Finally i added in betweens to make animation smooth. And video which i have posted below is the playblast of the first pass.

After getting the feedback from my tutor for the first pass i made some corrections which made the animation more interactive. 

This is my final output after all corrections, which are mentioned by my friends and tutor. I really enjoyed while working on this Animated sequence. Thanks to my tutor Penny Holton and my friends and seniors.

my last year's demo reel

Hi this is my last year's demo reel . It is a group project . This is a story about a thief who is trying to escape from the police man after robbing some gifts from the shop and finally how he gets caught by the police man.The whole animation part is done by me .It is a free download character.The Set modeling , Lighting is done by my friends.Compositing and Editing is done by my friend Vishnu and me .
I really enjoyed while working on this project because this my first demo reel which was fully planned and executed by our team members.

THANKS TO MY SUPERVISOR,SENIORS,AND TO MYFRIENDS

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