"You're Tearing Me Apart!"
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:30 am
Here's a super short test I did just for fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tZpK0YaWY
My audio and video reference is from the hilariously bad movie: "The Room" directed by the infamous Tommy Wiseau. This is a classic line for those who haven't seen the film.
What I did is I imported the video into Anime Studio and placed it side by side with my little "Elf" rig (minus the hat) and built my animation around that reference pulling out poses and expressions from that and then adding a lot of my own stuff as well making it more... "animated".
I didn't rotoscope it, but I kept a lot of the timing and poses from the reference and I actually think it turned out pretty good for just a day's work. It's nothing I would put on my demo reel, but I'm happy with it.
I found using the reference VERY helpful for lip sync especially. I think I changed that the least from the video reference. Everything else got pretty heavily altered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tZpK0YaWY
My audio and video reference is from the hilariously bad movie: "The Room" directed by the infamous Tommy Wiseau. This is a classic line for those who haven't seen the film.
What I did is I imported the video into Anime Studio and placed it side by side with my little "Elf" rig (minus the hat) and built my animation around that reference pulling out poses and expressions from that and then adding a lot of my own stuff as well making it more... "animated".
I didn't rotoscope it, but I kept a lot of the timing and poses from the reference and I actually think it turned out pretty good for just a day's work. It's nothing I would put on my demo reel, but I'm happy with it.
I found using the reference VERY helpful for lip sync especially. I think I changed that the least from the video reference. Everything else got pretty heavily altered.