Advanced Character Animation

This blog is in place to document my progress and research for the 'Advanced Character Animation' module at Thames Valley University. My idea is to create a short 30 second animation in the style of 'Creature Comforts', an 'Aardman Animation' classic.

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Friday, October 20, 2006

Acting and Recording

For reference I've recorded my girlfriend acting out the clip. This is going to help me with eye movements and gestures that I may not have noticed or done when animating myself, obviously I'm going to interpret the animation in my own way, but this will serve as a good basis to build on. We took about 14 takes, and this was the most successful one, it was a lot harder to do thatn I thought it would be. Please excuse the poor quality of the clip, I haven't had much time to play around with compression settings. I may upload another version in time. Needless to say the original is a lot more readable and you can see her eye movements and such.

EDIT: Also the sound is incredibly low, I'll upload a better version soon.

The clip is here.

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