You’re a Ranga
Picking a reference
Reference in animation is an essential source to derive information from. Just observations of natural progressions in subtleties of body language can help to solidify the direction of a scene. I picked a scene from Summer Heights High, because I found the scene with Jonah to be quite humorous and an excellent source of character inspiration. Working with the live action footage for staging and of course speech delivery; I blocked out the story telling poses of the sequence to get a feel for the scene.
1st pass
After establishing all of the poses, we start to see how the computer wants to fill in the gaps. Obviously, in linear interpolation, everything moves at the same speed, and is lifeless, so positions inbetween the poses are also added, so give the machine more information to smooth with (we don’t ever want the software to do all the work, or it just looks dead!). When I run my 1st animation pass, I also like to block in the eye direction, and mouth opening and closing positions. A very generalised smooth is produced after this.
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Dude that was awesome. And funny. MORE! I want to be a voice.
That was insanely awesome man. I really loved it. The handshake and the monkey’s fall are a little wonky though.
KAPOW!
ps. still makes me eye smile.
@ Kalani, for sure!
@Sigler thanks man! Yeah, those bits need work for sure!
@ Lisa <3
you gonna animate that good for me when i finally freaking get the storyboards when i eventually start them in some time in the future like…..?
that’s awesome man.
oh damn…. i swear the neighbours heard me laughing
Whoo! Summer Heights High!
You did that :O! That’s awesome 