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.