Dialogue Animation

Characters chosen are Gerald McBoingBoing and 'the cat who hated people' (no name given).

I chose this sound clip because it had a lot of energy to work with. This taught me a great deal about how to move a character in a fast way, using smears and rapid settling, over-shoots etc.
Lip-syncing was surprisingly easy; hadn't expected that.

The backstory for this scene is that Gerald has some anger issues - he doesn't take well to being told what he can or can't do... He's a child, so he throws a fit.

I really enjoyed having Mike Polvani as teacher. Swell guy, I'll miss him.

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Also, here are some sketches of the day...

AfterEffects 2 final compositions

1 week course in Adobe AfterEffects for compositing. Used the bird flight-cycle from our previous TVPaint class and threw it all together. The plane near the end is a mood-killer, teacher and I agree, but it was part of the assignment to have a plane in there... I chose the creepy, rainy evil caste mood.

The final, "close-encounter" assignment... put onto a screen and played with camera-movement. This assignment basically involved a UFO flying around a background element like the tower here and to abduct/or beam down an animated character (animated using AfterEffects, here the Pin Tool)

This was so much fun, and very useful in our future projects...