Rotoscoping the face?

Last time I posted I said that I was planning to rotoscope footage of my face. I've decided not to do this. The reason is that I really can't see how useful it would be compared to the actual footage of the video itself. I may be wrong in this and will bring it up with my lecturer next week but for now I think I will just work on the animatic itself. Below you can see the face footage and the layout I would have done for my rotoscoping file.

Rotoscoping

This week we were set the task of doing some rotoscoping. This involves recording video footage of something and then drawing over the top of it. In this case I am just taking the most extreme frames of my footage as it is just reference for my unlike if it was being done for a 2D animation.

The first one I did was of just a random action, me looking for something I had lost. First is the video footage, then the most extreme frames and lastly my rotoscoped skeletons showing what I got out of it. The result was surprisingly effective, there's a lot of subtle body movements and language which would add a lot of authenticity to an animation. 

The next piece of work is the same process but done for my actual 3D animation idea. Whilst not perfect in terms of body language it still shows a lot of information which I would have likely missed if I went straight to 3D animation. 

I have footage and extreme frames of a zoomed in shot of my face for my animation too which I will do soon, though I am having a bit of trouble as there are a lot more shots for it. Honestly for that part I think that the video itself would be more useful but I will do the exercise anyway as it could inform me of important features that I am missing. 

Animatic version 2

So I redid my animation last night because I wasn't really happy with my original. I've kept it all very similar but have just made the animation frames a little cleaner and a bit more flowing. Anyways, new, cleaner animatic here.

Ball animation

It's a ball! I still need to add squash and stretch to it but ballsssssssssssss

Storyboard update and Animatic

So recently I made a digital version of my storyboard and created an animatic of it as well. On the storyboard I kept most everything the same yet when it came to the animatic I found that a few things worked better in different ways, for instance the falling girl falls behind the main character and is visible when she hits the floor, which is better in my opinion. Honestly, I feel that I've been doing really bad in this module and that it deserves more time yet I have been stressed trying to keep up with the workload of my other modules as well along with having a bit of a personal nightmare of recent. Hopefully in future I will make some better work. 

Storyboard

So here is the first version of my storyboard, sorry for the bad quality of the photo. This along with the script get across the idea of my animation concept and will hopefully make some great work! The drawings aren't detailed but then being a storyboard it just needs to show off the general concept at this stage, plus the rigged models I am looking at using are very cartoon-y, having very few details on their bodies. Despite my initial worries about this module I am enjoying it quite a bit at the moment. 

Script

So here's the script for my animation. I think it's all correctly formatted but there may be some errors that I can't recognize. I've had a look on the internet through various scripts (The BBC site particularly has a good variety) and think this is fine. It's a simple but effective script and I'm happy with it.

Sound Clip

Today I found my sound clip that I wish to use for my 11 second animation. It's an excerpt from 'Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'. During the clip only Sid the Sloth talks so I think that the animation itself shouldn't be too bad, but I will start as early as possible to make sure I finish it to a good quality. The next step for me is to write a script and after that, plan and create the storyboard. I already have a pretty good idea as to what I will do with the animation but that could change later. I can't link the sound but here is the download address: http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/nobodyGotHurtExcept.wav