Acting For Animation Begins Here

Yesterday we we began the next module, Acting for Animation, which I have to say sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun!

The ICA consists of three tasks:

• Task 1: Character, Objective, Obstacle.
• Task 2: The Mime
• Task 3: Two Character Dialogue

I'll cover them all in more detail in the following posts.

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In preparation for this at the end of Animex week me and Andreas decided to team up and create a new rig for the module. I designed the character and drew up the modelling views and Andreas created the guy in 3D.  Here's my design: 

 The 3D version  looks AWESOME! I knew he would though thanks to Andreas' skills :) It's always cool to see one of your designs becoming 'real'. I named him Joe, so he will now be the Joe rig, woo!

He's still in the works and the rigging process is currently underway but the modelling and textures look really great so far. I particularly like the 'Mime' texture. Here he is:

I'm also really impressed with the skin! I really need to learn more about texturing and shaders... think I'll look into it during the Pre-Production module ready for the Final Project. But yes... hopefully Joe will be seen in action fairly soon! I plan on using him for the Mime topic, as I think Andreas' Woody rig will suit my idea for Task 1 a lot better.