Heya! There are several things you might want to take into consideration here:
First off, the fact that the little guy has adult proportions makes one constantly think he is far away, so its essential to adjust his proportions to child like this early on in the production.
Also, I would rather have a slight downshot on your second camera, and an upshot on your last, to keep the heads on more or less the same level. The old guy isn't dominating the child, he's giving advice.
The very different backgrounds have the potential to confuse your viewers, at least at the moment, so you might want to find a way around that.

These are just some suggestions from me, so don't feel compelled to follow them

Sorry A downshot is from a high(er) altitude angled downward, an upshot is the opposite.
Here is a great handout on staging, and you can find lots more on that subject on this blog

Wolfor i read the article and it was amazing ... thanks a lot

But don't u thing if i put a down shot on the second cam would make the character a bit inferior... cause he says "It's fai to say i have lived my dream...."

You sure got some work done! Like your blocking and setting! I am curious how it will improve the next days.

Keep going and happy animating!

First off, I'm diggin the layout you've created and the staging.  However, since it is only an 11 second audio,  I feel that there is too many camera cuts.  Personally, I think you can get away with just the initial camera.  You could also move the camera over the shoulder of the boy so that we'd get that over the shoulder shot.  Just my 2 cents.  Good luck with the contest.

Last edited by Icontak (08-04-2012 11:28 am)

Not again

oh man this just a basic idea of what im gonna do dude ....

Very nice start up ....

Update : First level of blocking and changed the morpheus rig to Malcom. Still thinking on what to do with the camera
Suggestions welcomed

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Last edited by onetwo27 (08-06-2012 7:43 pm)

-Yeah I would shift the position of the boy screen left during the second camera shot.
-I know it's only blocking and you'll probably address this later, but watch the angle of the left hand on the left leg as he stands up. Right now it looks a little awkward.
- I think the first 3 poses of the left arm/hand will give you some issues when you come to breakdowns and spline. There might be too many poses. The audio is slow so you don't want too many quick movements. I would maybe start with the left hand NOT on the boys shoulder.
- Again this is something you will probably notice when you start to break it down more, but I think you'll need more time for the anticipation and the pose at "I owned the stage". You may need to play with the timing there.

Cool stuff onetwo, keep it going and good luck!

Last edited by wellings (08-07-2012 10:01 pm)

Wellings : Thanks a lot bro ..... will have a look into the left arm and the poses are taken from my own reference video so im kind of animating from it bro and the left arm is completely gonna be on a different time track infact it would start to fall down slowly from the start .... i already have a problem of the IK to FK switching on the left arm bro and its worse .... kinda of having a nightmare    

And for the I own the stage part the hand would kind of drop when he says stage ...

Will post an update on the next wip with all the possible updates mentioned

Last edited by onetwo27 (08-08-2012 6:56 am)

Thanks a lot wellings well im more of an FK user lol

So heres what i have got so far .... WIP 4 .. critics welcomed ....
I havent started to look at each of the body parts ... right now all i have been doing the poses as a whole so from now on will start to look into them

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