Fun Times

Hi everyone,

Here are the pictures from last night!  I had lots of fun.  Thanks for a great class, Victor!  Til next time....  :P

Reblock

Hey all!

I've done a re-block of the guy from Victor's notes.  I'm hoping they're more amped up and what the scene needs.  I dont have anything on the girl.  I didnt have much before, but somehow I deleted all the keys on her.  But they will change depending on what he's doing.

There's one thing I wonder though, the pose on 155, should I hold that longer to account for his quick breathing at the end and then continue with the poses out?

https://syncsketch.com/playground/8609e3c98751491293ee7f91660f47a0#135418

I would love to know what you think!

Thank you in advance! Ellen

Diana - Reaction Shot Polish

Hey hey!
In addition to working on the other shot, I've been switching over to this shot here and there. I applied your notes and tried finding more places to break up the movement/add polish. What do you think?

https://syncsketch.com/playground/1a3b407048d74308a79800646100bedd#135416

I hope you're having fun in Vegas, so if you don't have time to review this, I totally understand! :)

Thanks a bunch,
- Diana

Shot Idea

Hi,

I've had a shot idea for a little while, and I thought it'd be fun to start fleshing it out in lieu of my mental break from my current shot.

I realize this dialogue might be too long, but here's the idea:

News anchor introduces a segment and turns it over to his field guy for commentary.  You know how sometimes the audio seems to take forever to transfer over to the field reporter, so everyone's left staring in an awkward silence until it finally reaches him?  I want to show the two reporters in the same screen, with the field reporter up in the corner.  The anchor says his blurb, and meanwhile the field reporter is standing in oblivious, goofy silence.  After a couple of seconds, the anchor gets a little uneasy ("Can he hear me or not?") and shifty, but tries to maintain his professionalism.  FINALLY, the field reporter starts to answer, then cut.  I want to play up the length of the silence so that it's exaggerated but also realistic in comparison to how it really happens in the news.

I'm not sure if this could be entertaining or not, but I think it's something we all think when we're watching the news.  At least I do.  The point of the shot is to have subtle humor, but mostly an exercise in showing subtext and thought process.

Any thoughts?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4df9yiyys0zkqj1/Hey%20Will.wav?dl=0

Thanks a bunch!

Jamie

Inspiration Stuff!!

Hey hey!!

After last class, we talked a bit about inspiration and I thought I'd share some of the videos and things that help me and maybe helpful to someone else. This isn't really animation related but I thought hey why not share!

As I mentioned in class - this is one of the sports-like motivational videos I go to when I feel in a rut.



Also, Shine On You Crazy Diamond because we're all crazy and it tends to inspire animation epiphanies (at least for me). :) plus it's almost 20 minutes long soooo if you listen to it while animating who knows what will happen... given you aren't working on something audio-related.



 And a bit of Peanuts never hurts!!

I hope you liked some of this stuff/ it's somewhat helpful. Happy Animating :)

Links

Hi class, here's the "idea" video I referenced in class yesterday:
https://youtu.be/JPJ3oy-rWUk
And here are the notes from the Specificty lecture:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oeq9il0y4krhpp9/Specificity_new.pdf?dl=0

Diana - Reaction Polishing

Hey hey!

After Wednesday's class, I got really into polishing this shot out and trying to hit all the notes. I think I've been able to address most of them, however I've decided to leave the elbow fix til the end since every time I mess with the hand/shoulders it changes elbow work, so again please ignore the pesky elbow :)

https://syncsketch.com/sketch/120525#131785

What do you think? Feedback is welcome.

- Diana

ALSO, a friend showed me a way to create high quality playblasts that I wanted to share with everyone because it's super cool and can save time if you don't want to render but still want a high quality image for your reel or review.

I think this is mainly for Maya 2015 and above but I may be wrong - in the "renderer"setting, select the little box next to Viewport 2.0 and you can make image quality adjustments (I made a little image of some of the manipulations I use below) - also if you have lights and you can enable "screen-space ambient occlusion" to give some indication of shadows.

I hope this is helpful!! See you all Wednesday