Major: Lost Boy - Animation Progress #6

I have been animating with Young Graeme and have completed the airport scene and the classroom, I am now animating with Mrs Pratt and all three characters in the Art Room. Thanks to Emily Clarkson for breaking down how they achieved those nice fire effecst in the Marcus and the pudding pans for the Fishermans cottage I was able to replicate the effect for the rocket which added some choppy flames which I wanted, I decided to try the same effect with the lost Boy art that Young Graeme is drawing and use the blendshapes to crumple the paper up into a ball along with the animating paint splats on the ground - the blendshapes method worked like a charm for both I found myself really enjoying getting into modelling again as it feels like a while since I have done any so I wanted to really get into the characters heads by modelling little random bric a brac such as Young Graeme's art supples and Present Graemes airport items I have ideas for more such as a Nokia brick phone for Present Graeme and a school bag that is left by Young Graeme's table but I will return to that at a later date as animating is my main focus.

Lost Boy: Animation Progress 6 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

paint bottle painted texture

 School Table Painted Texture

 Pencil Case Painted Texture

 Flame BlendShapes

 Flame Shape Editor

Paint Splats on ground made using Blenshapes

Major - Lost Boy - Animation Progress #5

Lost Boy PostViz - Animation Progress 4 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

 Boarding Pass Painted Texture

 Conveyer Belt Painted Texture

Tobacco Painted Texture

Major - Lost Boy - Animation Progress #4 - Shot 11

I was originally going to cut this shot for the hand in as it was a big chunk to lip sync but I wanted to do it as it really describes the Present Graeme's character and after hearing the sound that my composer Brian Freeland made I couldn't cut it. Shot 12 is near completion I have just been modelling the assets for that shot, including the clappaboard, conveyer belt and Present Graeme's knick knacks that are inside the airport tray for shot 13.

Lost Boy - Post Viz Shot 11 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

 Shot 12 Clappaboard, Microphone Assets

Clappaboard Painted Texture

 Shot 12 Clappa Board, Conveyer Belt Assets

Shot 13 Assets WIP

@ALan Major: Lost Boy - Post-Viz - Animation Progress #3 Version 2

I have added in movement to present Graeme's spine and cog control and a breathe in and out for the exhale of his cigarette - I think he looks much more vivacious and alive now, I do think there is room for improvement, I still need to animate the eyebrows too.

Lost Boy - Shot_10_V2 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy - Post-Viz - Animation Progress #3

Todays Animation Progress - I enjoyed this one, I decided to have Present Graeme version 2 face the audience when rolling along his ball of tobacco - I think its more comical that way :)

Shot_10 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy Post-Viz - Animation Progress #2

I am really enjoying animating and I am getting quicker at it particularly with the lip sync as Alan advised me I didn't really have a mouth open - wide and narrow blend shape as the rest of the wide and narrow blendshapes were connected to a phoneme it slowed the previous lip sync on shot one down but now that I have created and connected the wide and narrow shapes I am finding myself not needing the majority of the phoneme blend shapes as most of it is done with the jaw, wide and narrow. I do think the running shot could be better I want to return to this also the shot where Present Graeme smacks his head with the nervous ball of energy flourishing from his eyeball I want to lip sync this part but did have the wide and narrow blend shapes done for that shot - I will return to it and reconnect in the blend shapes.
Animation Progress 2_720 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

 Wide Mouth Closed Blend Shape

 Wide Mouth Open Blend Shape

Narrow Mouth Open Blend Shape

Major: Lost Boy Post-Viz - Animation Progress #1 Scene 1 - Shot 1

Now the fun starts! I am throughly enjoying animating :D Some refinements can be made, I should start to get into the flow more with animating and get quicker, I followed the attached tutorial below to help with the lip sync as I find it kind of difficult to do it definitely can be improved but the video thought me a valuable lesson that I never thought of before - sound is delayed so the face shapes start before the actual sound happens. 

Lost Boy Scene 1 Shot 1 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.