Progress for final assignment 3 >:3

I have officially completed all animation,lighting and rendering.... But i encountered problems with the fusing of the sound clip and the original batch render video(which also happens to be fast forwarded by 3 seconds) :(.
Adobe Primiere Pro has problems processing my batch render and all i could see is a black screen @.@...

Thus I had to re-export the batch render in Windows Movie Maker in order to fuse the soundclip with the video and re-adjust the fps rate in Adobe Primiere Pro. However, this processed downed the quality of the video. I've tried rendering it in PNG.. but it seems that Primiere Pro does not support the file as well!! :'(.

Oh wells,
here is an earlier video i playblasted, it consists of the completed lipsync of the sound clip.

lip sync without actions





and this is the final video with actions that's zoomed in from the original finalised video
Final PlayBlast CloseUp

Progress for final assignment RESEARCH

It is really difficult to start off animating anything without any references at all. So here are some of the references and tips that I have and will be following for my animation.

First off, this is a phonemic chart that i've found over at danfergusdesign. At that page, it has a compilation of a few phonemic charts(2D & 3D) which might prove useful as a reference for lip syncing.

this chart itself shows not only the basic phonemes but also how the lips will look like along with the strong pronounciation of certain letters

Interestingly, during my search for more relevant information, I found this animation done by DJ Hoski with the Hogan rig.

This video might not be the best, but it helped me to understand how characterisation works. The arms, facial, body movement all adds to creating a character. Thus I'll be adding in this into my own animations.

I remember Mr.Willy showing us a video of DJ Nicke, with him giving a tutorial on lip syncing. I found his webpage and in his post " How to make lip-syncing easy", he shows us a 4-step technique that can be used to "speed up our lip-syncing animation" xD.

here is the link

Good luck to all with your submissions! :)

Progress for final assignment 2 >:3

So i've started lip syncing...

I placed a palm size mirror in between my monitor and my keyboard and adjusted it so that i can only see my lips. And i started chanting the words that i am animating over and over again in order to animate the lips of devil hogan more accurately...
Oh god! i look funny doing that!!

Progress for final assignment >:3

For this assignment, I will be working on Captain Jack Sparrow's famous "Dishonest" Quote. Basically, i came up with an idea with a reporter interviewing a devil. As you can probably guess, the quote will be said by the devil :3. In the picture below, textures and environment objects are still missing. but they will be all up probably by tomorrow.

That's all for now!