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!

Hogan and his ice cream xD

Hogan's expression Before, and After dropping his ice cream.

Initially, i wanted to make Hogan mimic a TV-advertisement where the ice-cream sales person did a stunt by dropping an ice-cream into his mouth. But i did not know how to make an animation appear in the TV i modelled thus i cut that out and made Hogan do the stunt instead :D. Hope you all like it!

Expressions

This exercise made me think about factors such as

In my opinion, "Trust" and "Disgust" is two of the toughest expression to capture as "Trust" is a believe and I tend to observe trust based on verbal contexts instead of expressions.. Google did not help much with this.. so all I can do is to visualise the expression of what I have seen in Japanese Animations when a character says "I TRUST YOU" xD.

It is difficult to get "Disgust" right as over-exaggeration will make Hogan look like he's angry or sad. After googling, a "Disgusted" face is usually observed by the lifting of the upper lips,a parted mouth, narrowed eyes and a wrinkled nose. Hogan don't happen to have a nice nose and I couldn't wrinkled it even if i added the nose in.. This took away some chances to make the expression "Disgust" more realistic. I hope he don't look too angry in this picture @.@.

The rest of the emotions were pretty straight forward to capture. Thus, I hope i did a good job with them! :)

Props

This keyboard was referenced from K-ON Mugi's Korg Triton Extreme 76-key keyboard

 

A Retro Microphone on Tripod