Mime In Progress

Now that the fear animation is done and dusted I've been spending more time on the Mime animation.

Since I posted my block I made another pass over the animation adding in the breakdowns and adding the audio:

After getting feedback on this I made another pass over it to refine the timing and make it faster and snappier. Luckily I have the audio broken down into separate sound bytes and added in separately using Max's ProSound which makes adjusting it to suit the animation a lot easier!

I'm now working on the Facial animation, focusing on 500 frames at a time and going over each bit continuously for the mouth, eyebrows and eyes until I'm happy before moving onto the next set. As the animation is now at 1500 frames, I'm around 2/3 of the way through.

The only part I haven't worked on yet is the pupils aka where his eyes are focusing. I intend to do a separate pass of this when I'm done with the body animation as if i alter the head then I'll only have to make to alter it again anyway.

So here's where I'm at after the last pass:

I plan to finish the rest of the face off tomorrow before work and then Friday I'll be moving onto the spline animation for the body.

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I've also noticed that it's been awhile since I posted an animated short on here, so here's one I watched recently:

I really enjoyed this, it has a really attractive visual style. I loved the tree!! Actually I generally like trees.... I find them interesting O_o The character designs are great too. I also watched some additional videos on the making of this film looking at how they composited the shots, so many different passes for the various lighting aspects. Makes me want to learn so much more! I'm also intrigued about animating animals...