Nice start.Maybe more poses for that first step.

hmm i do like your take on the clip.

Hey guys here is my latest playblast! Its still in blocking stage but i have taken the robber a bit out of blocking at the start to move his fingers, while counting the cash! Enjoy

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Are you referring to the one where he says "tough" and leans over?

hey i like the idea..great start.
perhaps you are having him make too many similar gestures with his hand...its a little repetitive and it would be nice to see a little more variety in his gestures. i think the one on "tough" is not working for me...if you can find another way to communicate that without making the same gesture that would help break things up more.
good luck and have fun!
cheers
-mike

Hey guys here is my update for this week The robber is still blocked for a fair bit of it but I'm most probably going to animate him using straight ahead action. I haven't done any real facial animation or lip sync as i want to get all the body movements right first!

Let me know what you all think!

Thanks again and all the best

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OK I have gone ahead and changed it a bit, so its not just his one hand moving all the time.

Do you guys think this works better?

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Yeah i will be tending to that first pose and fixing it up.

Lol yeah i did act this whole thing out prior to animating it, I usually act it out 3 different times and either choose one acting choice that i think works or add bits from each time to make the one. But I did find that i used my hands a lot tho and kept on lifting my hands to my head just like you see here, which is why i went with it..

Im guessing that the facial animation will impact this more as he does look dead and lifeless with all the movements, at the moment so ill put up another WIP hopefully soon

Thanks heaps for your feedback!!

great stuff...nice progress.
couple notes:...on "that's right, you're absolutely..." his head seems to be doing most of the work...i can see that the core controller backs up slightly on the second "absolutely"..but that looks a little stiff and linear...i would try to incorporate more subtle movement in his chest..have it rotate slightly toward the other guy when the head does so it doesn't look too much like the body is frozen and the head is moving.
..also...great ending, but try to keep them alive for the moment after the last beat...right now they freeze in the last pose.
great work. good luck and have fun!
cheers
-mike

very nice.
the mouth shapes look really good, nice job with the ending as well.

Real nice this dude, looking forward to the finished piece