Reference footage & planning process

Here's a great article about reference footage & planning process from Spline Doctors

http://splinedoctors.com/2008/07/reference-footage-and-the-planning-process/

and an awesome example for a scene similar to my scene, thanks for Edward Villegas one of my peer buddies, but this one is the final shot with facial expressions & lip sync, great stuff

AM 307: Intro Dialogue Walk Thru Part II

Here's some work in progress for this week assignment.
I added some extra video reference I took yesterday, & worked on staging the scene so that the situation is more clear. & started with the first pass of blocking.

the situation:
Art dealer behind his desk, mad at the person he's talking to, could be someone who works for him, someone in the cleaning crew, or the delivery boy...whom accidentally spelled something on the paintings, and now the art dealer has to apologize to the artist or the art collector, and that's what he HATES DOING...

Video Reference II



& first blocking pass

AM 306: Assignment Submission

Half way through class 3 ... It's almost half way through AM's journey !!!
here's this week's submission...
In the video reference I'm acting out a different scenario from the original scenes the lines were taken from, I'm sure I didn't give the lines the acting they deserve ,I just suck in acting , anyways
here's the thumbnails for the 3 situations & the video reference.
Now I'm waiting for my mentor's critique in order to start the first pass of blocking.

AM 306: Intro Dialogue Walk Thru Part I

It's half way through class 3 & finally the assignment I have been excited for since I started at Animation Mentor, Animating Dialogue ... wooo hoooo

Introducing a more complex character rig "Bishop"
For this week our assignment is to pick up 3 lines from a movie or a series, & shoot some video reference acting out a different take from the original scene, then planning out the shot that I will be working on for the next 6 weeks, no facial expressions or lip syncing yet, that's for class 4 first assignment.

Here's the 3 lines I have picked, I personally like them all but I think line 3 is my favorite.

AM 305: Phrasig

Here' week 5 assignment handout, final polishing pass for the first assignment this term