Week 4

This week I got started on my Specialisation project. I want to focus on acting and lipsync in animation. Something I have very little experience in. I've got to work finding the sound bite for dialogue and creating a basic scene setup for the animation. I filmed myself saying the lines for reference and for possible acting ques to add to the animation to elevate it. I want to also use props in the shot for further enhancement to the animation. He has a sword on the table he will interact with whilst saying dialogue to add to the performance. For now I'm only going to have a steady camera, later I might add lighting and camera works for a final render.

I'm very pleased with my groups efforts so far in the production of our group animation. Everyone is pulling their weight and producing content at a steady pace. Breanna has completed the Lego Character Model along with UV unwrapping it, she finished concept art for all 5 Lego characters and has completed some props used by the Lego dudes. Jackson finished the storyboard, the concept art for the wizard "Master Builder" as well as the character turnaround sheet, a layout of the wizard room in Maya and is now working diligently on the textures for the Lego Characters. Moses completed the rig for the Lego Character's within a week and it worked surprisingly well, it did have some issues that I discussed with him and he has agreed to fix. Valent has finished the Dungeon Door and is well on the way to completing the Dungeon Corridor.

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A playblast of my current progress lip syncing and putting emotion into the acting of the character. It was a long ordeal attempting to find a usable rig for the sound clip I chose and that looked good. I found this model eventually and after stress testing it, I was confident it would perform well. After a week I've got 132 frames of animation with 4 seconds of slow dialogue.

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