I second that, The poses look nice and interesting

haha... neat blocking!

Got a couple more hours of work into it.  Got some more breakdowns in, and it's finally beginning to take shape.  Think I'll start converting this to spline pretty soon.  Just gotta break it down a little more.

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Got the first pass of the torso done!  Still needs some tweaking, I think, especially the last half.  I think I may need to tone down the moving holds.  Or maybe play with the timing a bit?  I'm not sure.

Any thoughts?

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Oh man it's looking better each time.  Around frames 277-282 with the torso, to me, it sorta looks like she is hiccuping.  Maybe that area as a suggestion for toning it down.

Hey Squib, your spline pass is really coming along.
Obviously the hands will make a huge difference.
Couple of things, currently she has good tension in her arm when she closes the door. But that probably has more to do with the fact that her hands are still stepped, so just watch out that you don't loose that nice pull feeling she has.
Also you're getting very 'handsy' with a bit of twinning and a lot of large gestures. Try and tone down the hand gestures particularly towards the end.

Just Like Dubslice said about spot where she looks like she's hiccuping I would try something a little more subtle with the hands like:
http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/katie … -mouth.jpg

Alright, got some more work in on this.  I ended up reworking the end to take out that hiccup bit.  I think it's working better now.  I also started work on the hands.  They're still pretty floaty, but at least they're not stepped anymore.

Starting to get a bit concerned about finishing this on time.  Still got so much to do.  But I'm gonna keep trying!

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Last edited by squib (10-27-2011 2:58 am)

Ha!  Oddly enough, that one pose was what I built this entire animation around.  That's, if I may use an entirely inappropriate term, the money shot.  I had intended for it to stand out.  However, it sounds like it may stand out a little too much.  I was planning on polishing up the spin a bit, maybe if I play with the timing some I can tone down the contrast.  I'll tinker with it and see what happens.

I hear you about the time.  Four days aren't much to wrap this up.  But I'm darn well going to try!  I don't think I've got time to add a second person, tho.

Hey Vicky!  I want to see some facial animation too!  I just can't seem to find enough time in the day to work on this.

No, I haven't done the fingers or the face.  Those are next, though!  Soon as I finish the arms.  I've got the right arm almost complete, just gotta get the left arm up to par.

And here's the current WIP:

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Progress!

I think I've got the arms in a good place.  I'm still seeing a few tweaks I want to make (the movement at 100-110 in particular), but that can wait until later.  The fingers actually got a keyframe or two, but only to make sure I was getting the contact between the hands right.  Fingers are the last pass I'm doing before the final polish and conversion to splines (everything's still in linear keys right now).

And the face finally has keys!  It's still really rough: just y-rotation on the jaw and a few facial expressions.  But it's there!

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Looking pretty good!

- try fixing the part when she folds her hands together; it should be Open hands (frame 61), to slightly Closed hands (frame 71), to Open hands again (frame 78), to Closing the hands perfectly in between the fingers (frame 90)... BUT... make sure they close starting with the pinky working it's way up to the index.  Right now, it's just closing way too fast and there's no anticipation on her RT_Hand when closing

- frame 273; RT_Hand pops

...I hope I made sense?

Last edited by ricekrispyninja (10-31-2011 3:28 am)

its a bit better...
...but yeah, the fingers close too fast again... space the keys out a bit more