Friday, July 15, 2011

Old and New

After the much appreciated break we've been diving back into the 1-Person dialogue shot again. My mentor Greg Kyle has opened my eyes to a lot of problems with the shot I didn't realize existed at the time. Looking back at the old shot and comparing it to what it is now... I can only say: What was I thinking?!

Old:



This was with a few notes added from various folks. New hand gesture on the "I dunno" (thanks Drew!) and a couple of tweaks here and there. What I didn't realize was just how watery everything was. At the time I thought this was snappy. Greg did not.

New:



With added facial animation here. I still think there are bits that I could speed up, but because the animation had become so convoluted there were a couple of areas where it would have been a ton of trouble to shave just a single frame. Learned a lot from these past 3 weeks though. I have to go in and polish this now, but the jist of the assignment is pretty set. Hope to bring this new-found sense into the next assignment :)

Thanks to the plethora of teachers, students, and friends that helped me with this shot.

10 comments:

  1. WOW! This is looking amazing. Great work Tony :)

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  2. Fantastic! I love the acting choices

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  3. Thanks Mike! Appreciate all the help too :D

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  4. Hah thanks for stopping by Omar!

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  5. excellent improvements man!!


    really looking great.

    jriggity

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  8. I'm not understanding what watery means in the context of computer animation, but the second attempt does look better. Do you mean "swimmy"? Too many moving holds and not enough static ones? You have a good teacher- it takes a certain talent to notice something this subtle. I didn't see anything wrong with the first one!

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