Character Animation – Dialogue
Release date:2014, September 29
Duration:02 h 15 m
Author:George Maestri
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Facial animation makes your character’s inner life shine through. This course—focused on the principles, not the tools, of animation—explores how anatomy, expression, and emotion intertwine, and how animators can simulate emotion in the face of almost any character. George Maestri shows you how to animate three shots, of increasing complexity: a silent “double take” that transitions from one emotion to the next, a simple close-up dialogue shot, and a full-body dialogue shot that accounts for posture and secondary motion.
Topics include:
Understanding the role asymmetry plays in facial expression
Conveying basic and mixed emotions
Planning shots
Blocking out timing
Reading dialogue
Animating lip sync
Adding blinks and eye movement
01 – Welcome
02 – Rig overview – CINEMA 4D
03 – Rig overview – Maya
04 – Basic emotions
05 – Mixed emotions
06 – Asymmetry in facial expression
07 – The eyes and emotion
08 – Planning the shot
09 – Blocking out the timing
10 – Adding facial expression
11 – Adding overlap and follow-through
12 – Reading the dialogue track
13 – Blocking out the initial poses
14 – Final blocking
15 – Adding facial expression
16 – Animating lip sync
17 – Final touches
18 – Setting up the shot
19 – Blocking the body poses
20 – Adding moving holds
21 – Animating secondary motion
22 – Animating the dialogue pass
23 – Adding blinks and eye direction
24 – Finalizing the shot
25 – Next steps
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