This week we started working on an animation that concentrates more on the lip-sync part.
For the animation, I had to go through lots of audios and find a one that resonates with me. I ended up with a sound from the Mean Girls tv show.
We had to write down the text and underscore words that we have to put the emphasis on and add pauses. In the white I wrote the text in a way how I hear it. This is necessary for the animation as the character doesn’t need to articulate all the sounds and lots of them are either skipped, changed or emerged with others.
For the reference at first I came up with one idea, but after the discussion with George I changed it. A final reference idea has two versions:
For the character I picked a Malcolm rig:
Artefact Animation
This week I started to develop scene 5 and 6. The second scene I would consider and the hardest one as it has the most character movement.
Previs:
For the scene 6 I filmed references to help understand the movement:
An animated playbast:
In the second version of the scene 6 I decided to shorten the scene and add a camera movement for more dynamics: