No, this has no connection to my past rotoscope project from Drawing in Motion. (Maybe it's my 17 years of dance classes catching up with me, that I'm just naturally drawn to study that type of movement? Maybe?) This was an exercise for my 3D Naturalistic Animation class. We had to find a video of a professional athlete and make our character act exactly as they do -- then adjust it so it looks natural to the character. I found a video online of this amazingly talented dancer and knew I had to use it. Who can bend like that? Honestly? Anyway, this file is pretty much done, though I would like to come back later in the quarter and tweak it some more if I can. You know, look at it again with fresh eyes. I'm not sure why this one didn't come up widescreen because that's how I saved it... oh well, something to look into I suppose.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
The Lost Cartoony File -- Mocking Dwight
I was sitting in the computer lab, waiting for one of my newer assignments to convert to a .mov file, when I decided to go through my blog. It was then that I noticed that - gasp! - I never put up one of my cartoony assignments from last winter. And so here it is. Better late (very, very late) then never, right?
You'll notice that it isn't quite as glamorous as my other projects, and by that I mean it's totally a playblast and not rendered out at all. Well there is funny story behind that -- right after I made this playblast, my network decided to corrupt all of my actual maya files. POOF! GONE! This little video is all that's left. So all you SCAD people reading this, NEVER LET YOUR HOME DRIVE ENTER THE RED. EVER. EVERRRRRRR. *eh hem*
And so I ask you to excuse it's appearance. I wish I could have finished it like I had planned -- added more natural hand movements and other things to make it all polished and spiffy looking. But I AM happy with some of the subtle movements I managed to portray on the character in the background, like his little shrug and nose twitch. So let's just focus on that, shall we?
Soooo, yeah. Please enjoy "Mocking Dwight", the Lost Cartoony File.
You'll notice that it isn't quite as glamorous as my other projects, and by that I mean it's totally a playblast and not rendered out at all. Well there is funny story behind that -- right after I made this playblast, my network decided to corrupt all of my actual maya files. POOF! GONE! This little video is all that's left. So all you SCAD people reading this, NEVER LET YOUR HOME DRIVE ENTER THE RED. EVER. EVERRRRRRR. *eh hem*
And so I ask you to excuse it's appearance. I wish I could have finished it like I had planned -- added more natural hand movements and other things to make it all polished and spiffy looking. But I AM happy with some of the subtle movements I managed to portray on the character in the background, like his little shrug and nose twitch. So let's just focus on that, shall we?
Soooo, yeah. Please enjoy "Mocking Dwight", the Lost Cartoony File.
Dwight Speech from Nicole Van Luvender on Vimeo.
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