Animation Creation

Once all the possible planning was completed, the only thing left to do was actually make it. The first thing I did was created an extremely basic set for the animation to take place in. For my animation this consisted of two walls and a basic framed picture. This helped to ground my characters, giving a point of reference to both their movements and the movements of the camera.
The first bit of animating to be done was the body movements of the main character. Thanks to the reference video, script and animatic this was relatively straight forward to do. I found the graph editor incredibly simple to use once I had been taught it.

Once all of the body and arm movements had been completed, the next step was lip syncing. This was one of the trickiest areas of the module to get right. To practice for animating the faces, we were given the task of animating the face of a rig into various different emotions.

Here are the emotions I did.
            Surprised                                                   Fear                                                  Confused

               

              Disgust                                                  Happy                                                       Sad

               

Angry

After doing this I had a slightly better idea of how to animate the faces on the rigs. I was then able to do the lip syncing for the whole of my animation.