Animation Mentor Class 4 Introduction to Acting

This class took the ideas form the previous classes, and combined them with behaviours, and details like staging and avoiding clichéd choices.

Term: Winter 2012
Mentor: Ray Chase
http://raymation.blogspot.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1112186/

Section 1 - 5
Pantomime Planning:

1. Safe At Throne
2. Fishing Expedition
3. Urban Cornucopia

I storyboarded 3 options, then consulted with my mentor to choose which one to animate.  I went with #1.  I  modified the Stewie rig by with a head I modeled and shaded.

Section 6
Dialogue Planning:

1. Woman hears noise and talks to her roommate
2. 'Film Noir' Man yells at former colleague
3. 'Film Noir' Mobster condescends

Much like the Pantomime, I storyboarded 3 options, but this time I edited audio options first.  Again, I went with #1.

Section 7
Dialogue Character Design

I modified the Bishop rig's body by modeling an altered version, which I applied with a blend shape.  Then I used that as a basis for the clothes, which I applied with a wrap deformer.

Section 8
Bishop Hand Pose: Anger

Section 9
Bishop Hand Pose: Relaxed

Section 10 - 11
Bishop Hand Pose: Surprise

Section 12
Progress Reel
Shots:

1. Dialogue with limited face controls, to be completed with full controls in Class 5
2. Pantomime