11second club - ooooo

11 seconds

Scene Layout Actor

So we have been given the task of competing in the 11 second club , the clip was quite challenging I found. It was even more challenging when I came to act it out, I think I'm ready for Hollywood now.....

As its for an animation I was trying to overact to get some exaggeration into it, I think I overdid it. It feels a little bit busy but I'm going to have 2 of the key poses in it that are worked towards and the rest are more subtle and acted out through the hands as they can be very expressive. It is quite an emotional (winey) clip. I'm really looking foward to competing hence doing this months clip. I'm going to work it on him being in the doctors so there will be 2 characters in the scene however the other will just be listening.


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Week 2

This weeks upload my aim was to get out the timing with key poses in so that I wouldn't have to spend ages moving frames about after as I have done in previous projects. The timing is working well but obviously there is no in between really to give out the acceleration and to stop him from looking robotic. This weeks aim is to get his body movement almost finalised so I can spend the final week on facial animation.

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Week 3

This week I started to pull the animation together a bit more, he still has an air of robotics about him. His hands are still not moving and need to be added in and the movement I am still unsure about. I wish I had actually had him moving instead of sitting down now or at least interacting with the camera a bit more.

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Week 4s Work - Video with twitch ( see if you can spot it )

So I've added all the other things in that I thought needed to be added, hands are more interactive but still not completely there. I also tried to add some more movement to the general body as he seemed so dead. The lip sync I had a lot of trouble with as I didn't make character sets and did things like keying the whole face, making it impossible to add facial animation after without loads of effort so I had to go through it way to many times. Though this project has taken me a long time I have really really learned to love character animation even if I'm still very average at it. I know next time though that I would be able to work at it a lot quicker and have the idea of working it through much better now.

This scene below has an added twitch as I was trying to add character to the guy, however by the time I decided to establish a character to the guy it was to late. In future I would try and establish it earlier instead of being undecided. This is the smoothest animation I have done and my timing has improved, however he still doesn't seem like a character. I was feeling quite good after I finished this until I looked at some of the 11 second club entries again and thought of what I should have done. The main thing is I have learnt so much from this, I have also found out more about Maya. I would really like to keep up the 11 second club maybe every 2 months as I have found out it really interests me....

The starting posistion really annoys me now!