by her feet there is a visible controls icon. Turn the hands on. You should be able to select the palm, and it will have an attribute called hand scale. I just opened that exact rig and it all seems working ok
Good luck with your shot!

When I say palm, I mean the palm of where the finger controls are located. Its just the box below the finger controls.

Last edited by cosmicfool (04-11-2012 4:18 am)

yup, in the outliner open up Char_Norman1-WorldSpace-grWorldGeo. Than simply drag gra1_world geo out of that heirarchy.
This allows you to select any geo you desire. I reccomend going into component mode(press f9 after you select the forearm) Than scale in y in the front view and z in the top view. After you are done tweaking all the geo you want, simply drag that a1worldgeo back to where you got it from.

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looking so much better now!
That hand being smaller helps out so much.
I like how you get the other hand involved at the end by switching whats holding the hat.
I love how you plug the nose again as you are walking away with the other hand, really nice little touch there.
Im kinda torn about the gesture you do when she says there comes a time, if its a tad too many gestures with the one hand. But so far its coming nicely.
A couple areas I think that you could improve on.
- When she is holding her nose after going into grab the food, I love how she looks at the food, looks at the person, looks at the food, but then she doesn't look back at the person. It's like she is talking to the food now. I think here she should maintain strong eye contact with the person throughout the rest of the shot. Than we can tell she thought about what she was going to say to this person that just served her carp. And she really means what she is telling her now.
-When she pushes the table, be nice to see you put her shoulder into a bit. I don't know if you thought of this but instead of pushing the table, she could simply move the food further away from her. Probly would be a bit more believable. Plus a good chance to put a disgusted look on her face, as she cant stand the smell, she needs it gone, but now she has to touch it to get it gone.
Otherwise I think its coming nicely
Cheers.

Last edited by cosmicfool (04-11-2012 7:32 pm)

Thanks so much for the comments guys! I'm going to make some revisions later tonight and post an update tomorrow

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Changed the beginning of the shot so as to have her leaning down to the tray a lot more. Added a pose of her picking up the food and bringing it toward her mouth before recoiling from it. Also changed the composition of the shot a bit (not sure if it's better or worse) and added a girl holding the tray.
Thoughts?

Thanks a lot emarston. I will cut down the push of the tray a bit before I move on. And I'll definitely keep in mind the movements of the tray.

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Starting to do some clean up. This is my first time ever diving into the curves in spline mode after blocking. In the past I've gone in and just animated every frame one by one. I had a lot of control that way, but it made my work very choppy and I couldn't get that "smooth" look happening. This month I'm doing it the proper way.
Up to the beginning of the audio is cleaned up but I know I can do lots to improve it as it's my first time doing it this way. Crits and comments very welcome as usual!

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definitely coming along nicely!

- I would say try to really sell the contrast between Excited & Disappointed;  in the beginning she should be Excited
  when trying the Free Sample but then turns to Disgust/Disappointment when she smells it.  You have it somewhat
  now, but I think you REALLY could push this a lot further.  (and not only facial, but body silhouettes as well)

- I think her eye lids should be 1/2 shut when she starts her lines on Please... like a "snickering" expression... but
  then go back to what you have currently. (I've seen the "1/2 shut eyelids" on many others... so you don't have to
  use it all the way through... but I think it works for that part when saying Please... up to when she closes her eyes.)

Hope this makes some sort of ¢?
Cheers!

Good timing!Keep it up.

Wow this is progressing wonderfully! Nice job! Man, it's certainly come a long way. Reads MUCH better now, and good job pushing the early poses more. Keep at it!

I'm going to be picky bc i like this.
as she comes in to grab the food her fingers should close around it. right now she just kinda swoops in fingers already posed.
on the hand push as she drops the food i would play with the finger poses. right now they are almost zero'd out for 3 frames.
as soon as she grabs her nose her spine and head seem to stop, push that follow thorough a few frames to add some texture to that hold.

keep pushing.

Hi nice work, this is stupid but i'll say to start your animation frame 22, i don't know why it feel way better^^