Final Dialogue Scene for class 5 in Animation Mentor!

There it is! finally! well actually I'm not too happy with it but I can't look at it anymore so I'm taking a break from this scene :) (not even going to render it any time soon).
I will probably continue working on it next term on class 6 which is all about polishing what we did in Animation Mentor.
Can't believe this term is already over.. one more to go and that's it :) woohoo!

Week 10 - Polishing!

This is my assignment for week 10, this whole week I've been polishing the hands and fingers and smoothing out the arcs (well I admit, I was staring at shot 5 for almost 2 days.. :) )
I have to continue with the polishing especially on shot 5 and I need to do an eyes pass and all that stuff.. and of course, address my mentor's notes.
Still have 2 more weeks to work on that scene. week 11 will be the last week with e-critique and week 12 is just for uploading a progress reel to AM web site but I usually still work on the shot on week 12.

New Dialogue Layout

So I chose a dialogue from the movie "The Kid" and here's the layout and a basic blocking pass.
I still need to adjust the last camera and probably push some poses, add breakdowns and refine the hands.
After the caveman animation I figured I like to animate subtle movements (though there aren't many in the caveman animation :) ) so this one should be fun :) plus I really like that dialogue :)

Animation Mentor class 5 final facial expressions assignment

Finally, my caveman animation is done!! :)
This week we had to finish the facial expressions for this shot. It's so nice to finally see the finished animation after so long :)
Next week we need to choose 3 dialog lines for a 2 characters shot. I've been searching for dialogs for over a week now, I watched 2 seasons of House and Private Practice, 1 season of Grey's Anatomy, 5 movies, and few episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Dollhouse.. and found only 4 lines... I don't like this searching part... it's not easy to find a dialog for 2 contrasting characters with no background music that I can relate to...
I also want to choose something difficult to animate because I think this is actually the last animation I will do in Animation Mentor since the next term is all about polishing what you already have.. but after all, I'm still having fun :)

Animation Mentor Class 5 week 2

This week, in addition to refining the facial expressions, we were asked to choose 2 pictures and recreate the pose on bishop.
Here are my 2 photos-























And here's my second pass for the facial expressions. I added the first camera just for now and will remove it when the caveman's facial expressions are done :)

Animation Mentor Class 5 week 1 !

Class 5 has began! :) My mentor for this term is Mark Pullyblank and the assignment for this week is to block out the main vowels and facial expressions. It's a bit weird because the lecture for this week was only about lip sync and nothing about facial expressions but I think everybody managed, so I guess AM know what they're doing :)

Here's my lip sync and facial expressions blocking-