After learning the tutorials online from the previous week, I started to tweak the facial animation in my project. And after I attended the Siggraph event ‘Bring your own Animation’ in November, I was given advice on checking the tangled character sheets to find some reference for mine, which has been attached below:
In this post I will be discussing where I have adjusted within the whole project, and my reasons of why by applying the principle learnt from last week:
- In shot 3, where my male character turns his head to the right, I have slightly raised his right side (cheek, eyelid, and eyebrow), and rotated his chain slightly to the left-hand side of the screen as he looks on the corresponding side.
- Similarly, in shot 4, I raised Jill’s opposite side of her face to create a matching shot-reverse-shot where they are greeting each other.
- Before Dex stumbles on the ground, he looks back at Jill, who is on the left-hand side of the screen. Here I rotate his chain slightly to the right-hand side of the screen, and let her upper face look on the left to respond to Jill. This helps to build up a C curve and makes the expression more asymmetrical.
- In shot 11, where Dex’s underwear has been picked up by Jill from his face, he groans after that. I let him squeeze his face first, which creates an anticipation for his later stretch and makes that look surprising.
- In shot 12, when Jill is scrutinising Dex’s underwear, I made her right-hand side face slightly raised up more so her eyebrow flow can point to the right-hand side of the screen.
- In shot 14, I exaggerated Jill’s facial expression after she noticed it’s an underwear flew out from Dex’s pocket by following the feedback given back by Rebecca at the Siggraph event. As her eyes are staring bigger, which also follows the trend of her shocked eyebrows.
- In shot 18, I made Jill’s eyebrows look more confusing; however, I have kept her eyebrow flow by following the principle.
- In the first shot of the imaginative world, when the underwear is flying to the right-hand side of the screen, I have raised the left-hand side of Jill’s face slightly higher just to create the flow, so audiences would follow.
Overall, for this week’s progression, here are my notes on my shot list:
Besides my progression in animation, I have also been double-checking with my music composer for his name credit in the end of my film:
And I have sent my content for preparing its promotion on the campus during the exhibition time:
After discussing with my friend Jan Zhou, who knows what I am working on since the summer holiday, I have been inspired to create a digital 2D A1 poster for the show. And here is how it’s been progressed.
In the next week, I will be focusing on finishing the postcard, poster and adjusting the last bit of lighting in the forest scene, and will be ready to submit this romantic work finally to the course 🙂