[WIP] Presenter task - Storyboard

The idea is clear and simple.
1. Animated ceremony logo - I will make it or download from past ceremonies (depends on sources)

2. Zoom in like on real ceremonies with title and all that stuff. Let's make fun! 

3. Split screen of all nominated actors and horizontal screen of host. Titles, names and category name. Fancy background

4. Same, but without host. 

I've animated simple mouth moves (yes! for all 1150 frames!). Got something to work on. But.. maybe after Christmas.

And now for something completely different

I got my clip for second task - Presenter.
It is from Rowan Atkinson live - The good loser.
0:00 - 0:48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R7elhS5sng

Should be easy and fun to do!

Presentation

Well, got confused for a moment.
I'm half way through my presentation about.. 'How to train your dragon' and I've just noticed that couple of people did presentation about the same movie. Luckly, different clips.
This means, my presentation has to kick ass!
That is why, for better effect I'm doing everything in Flash. This will look awesome!
Welp, going back to work.

Whoa!

Wow, actually I can't believe I haven't wrote anything for 6 days now. I finished first animation, reference shooting will be done at home, same as presentation and.. I was bored. So I've refreshed my portfolio page. For around a week I was working on this day by day (you see, I used to be a web programmer) and  well, actually night by night (I took advantage of less crowded labs from 20-02am) and yay, it is finished!
Enjoy!

http://www.rafalschubert.com

[WIP] Lip sync v.3.1

Okay, so here:
- Made eyedarts more subtle, revised lids
- Revised B, V, F phonemes (lip roll)
- Left hand (shoulder, hand, palm) delayed by 1 frame
- Exaggerated E, A phonemes

[WIP] Lip sync v.3

Okay, a lot happening last days. I got really got feedback from Remi. Also, Scott during the classess noticed, I'm missing one phoneme - u - in 'once' phrase. I've watched this video over 1000 times and I haven't notice that one.
Feedback is really helpful. I love it - I feel I improve with every change in my animations.
Enough of talkie-talkie. Watchie-watchie now.

[WIP] Lip sync v.2.2

As Remi suggested on Facebook group, I've added eyes micromovements. Still not sur about that. I will see what other people think about it.

[WIP] Lip sync v.2

Here it is! So after feedback, I changed and added some phonemes. Yes, it looks better now. Also, I added detailed couch and basic environment.

[WIP] Lip sync v.1.1

Totally forgotten to upload that couple of days ago. So.. here it is:



Based on my reference I added exact body moves. Oh.. exact.. I exaggerated it a bit.
Well, I posted that on Facebook couple of days ago, got my feedback.
I'm just going to change some things now.

Hey kids! Lip sync is fun!

[WIP] Lip Sync v.1.0

Basing on my reference:


I have created first lip sync + facial expressions version:



While you watch this, I'm working on body (torso and hands) animation.


-------------UPDATE-------------
First production fun-fact:
My mom thought, that's my voice. I got really confused.

Lip sync - Preparation

So, I started working on lip sync task.
For now I've created phonemes (Yes, phonemes. I like old ways) poses in PoseMan plugin, which always helped me a lot in lip syncs.

So, based on my phonemes sheet (which I created some time ago) I got following basic poses:

I think I will go for 'Talk About' from 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' movie, because I always wanted to do lip sync full of emotions, I mean sad emotions. Just to show good acting skills. And that's going to be a challenge for me.

Transcript:

Voice One: "He is better at this... than I have ever been at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift! And once you acknowledge that, then, maybe... we'll have something to talk about."

You can download it here: http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/july08/download/