In the 3D Pathway this term, we got to learn how to do basic human figure T-Pose and animate it! I feel like because we had the basic understanding of how to animate the character last term, now I got the chance do many experiments in terms of the scenes and movement of the character.
Even though I created my own T-Pose, the character that I animate is Kevin’s rigged character, Paul, because I forgot to save mine, stupendously, as always. So, the first thing that I did was to renamed the character as Obi, because I can. And then for my first animation, I got to animate Obi dancing. For this first exercise, I didn’t actually have a movement reference, but I work pose by pose and keep in my mind to keep the character looked balanced each frame.
The next exercise was lip sync exercise, and I decided to use the Vine sound that I use for the 2D Animation. We learned how to use blend shape to create the mouth movement of the character. In this exercise, I also experimented a lot in the animation scene and decided to create a little photoshoot for Blue Obi.
In both exercises I attempted to render the animation with a simple Arnold’s Skydome Light for the lighting, to make the animation looked finish.
And here is the final video of the lip sync!