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Archive for January, 2010

OUCH! – First Pass Polishing

Published at January 31, 2010 in Animation and Animation Mentor. 1 Comment

Here is the latest progress on the shot.

I am trying to add all the bells and whistles in this stage, as well as cleaning jerky arcs, tightening the spacing and pushing the texture in the phrases.

Thanks for watching.

OUCH! – More Breakdowns

Published at January 21, 2010 in Animation and Animation Mentor. 3 Comments

I broke down the hands a little bit more and varied the timing on the beats.

Hands!

Published at January 21, 2010 in Animation. 0 Comments

While I was doing a revision pass on the hand poses I have in my pantomime shot, I came by this super awesome post by Nick Bruno.

Check it out, it has some handy tips!

Hands!!!

Thanks Nick!!!

Pantomime at its best

Published at January 16, 2010 in Animation. 1 Comment

As some of you may or may not know, I started the acting classes at Animation Mentor.

Two weeks into the term I can say that acting is by far one of the most hardest/ toughest nuts to crack, but at the same time challenging as well.
Before I started AM everybody kept on telling me how hard it was, but now I am slowly starting to realise that there is so much to it than what it looks like on screen. It’s amazing how all the small idiosyncrasies that are put together create the performance of a character we learn to love (or dislike in some instances).

Anyhow, I wanted to share a pantomime clip of Mr. Bean I found on Youtube while I was looking brainstorming for reference. Pay careful attention to all the elements he is using in his performance such as pacing, texture, status, contrast and the most incredible thing about it all is the way he tells it through his body language and gestures.

Enjoy!