Acting to Dialog 2 - Blocking Plus and Polish Pass

The above is the Blocking Plus stage of my second dialog animation. The initial blocking stage is viewable in a previous entry, available here. In this stage, I have begun working on smoothing the animation together in splines, but haven't yet had time to really finesse the motion. I'm mainly trying to get the first set of motion in, to ensure the timing works and the body moves between poses well.



In this pass, I begin working in the graph editor to really focus on getting the motion as smooth and natural as I can. I mainly focused on body mechanics in the feet, hips and torso, as well as tracking the arcs in the punching arm and the head. I'll be making one more pass at this to refine the animation before moving on to my final scene for the class.

Acting to Dialog 2 - Blocking Stage

My second attempt at 3d animation to dialog. This is the blocking phase. I'll be pushing it into splines and revising some of the poses and layout based on received critique this week.

Acting to Dialog 1 - Completed

I finished my first CG Acting to Dialog project and will be moving on to the next one this week. You can watch the completed product below:



You can see the blocking stage for this animation in an earlier blog post here.