The Chosen Dialogue
Group Final Video
For our final project, we chose a dialogue from the comedy show that we both loved. It is a short scene in the TV show 'How I Met Your Mother'. The scene is about the a man called Ted is admiring a lady sitting at the bar and whispered to his friend, Barney. Barney loves to look at chicks and when Ted told him about the girl, without waiting any longer, he turned to look at the girl but Ted does not allow him too and Barney did the 'pity face'. He turned slowly for the first few seconds then complete his turn aggresively.
We chose the scene because we find it interesting, cute, funny and also they uses many different expressions like smiling, pity face, angry and shocked. Since the dialogue has the word 'bar', we decided to model out a bar environment that suits the dialogue and also the characters. We also added an effect using Adobe Premiere Pro in the middle of the scene whereby Barney showed a pity face when Ted ask him not to look at the girl. The reason why we added this is to show the main focus that is the eyes, how Barney got Ted to let him look at the girl with his cute pity face.
We encountered few problems with the referencing but my partner, Dawn, managed to get it woking. We had to reference our characters, the chair and also the bottle to the main 'Bar' maya file. This projects taught me many things, how we see a character behaves in the particular scene, the facial expression and the movements. We also used what we learnt from IN3D project 2, the constraints for the hands and bottle. It was not easy at first because we were not used to it but after awhile, we got the hang of it and actually, it was quite fun.
With the knowledge that I've gained for the past 1 year, it makes me appreciate the animation movies more. The two videos below is a short scene from 'Happy Feet 2' I admire the intricate animation of the krills and all the tiny details. The movie was really good too but I focused more on the aniamtion. It was superb! In my opinion, it was the best animation movie! You should watch it!
Individual Final Video(with Facial Expressions)
This is the complete animation of my part, I had to do the character, Ted Mosby. After I did the blockings, I find it easier to animate the character, I added the facial expressions and smoothen out some parts of the movements. I did not need to do many editing for the final as I did mostly for the blockings.
Individual Blocking
Blocking with settings
The storyboard and the key poses are very important because it is easier to animate the different movements. The blockings were much hard because the hands always pass through the table which was very frustrating.
