Facial animation: dialogue

in this assignment the instructor gave us a piece of dialogue (actually four to choose from) from a movie and animate it with whatever character we wanted. I had this guy drawn in my sketch book on march 25, and I thought the dialogue piece I chose would be something this guy would say. I made everything in flash except the hummer which is a vector render out of maya (flash element made in a 3d program).


a youtube address to watch in better quatlity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcgpJQCGAA

facial animation: sleep/death

on this one we had to make a character fall asleep or wake up with atleast 5 seconds of animation, then have a character die or come to life in at least 5 seconds. I combound the two into one video, and made the dinosaur fall asleep, and die in his sleep. I originally had another idea for the death animation, but someone suggested that I kill the dinosaur in his sleep, so I thought of the best way to kill a dinosaur; I had to hit it with a car.

facial animation: chew

This assignment required there to be the consumption and chewing of some object by a charcter, and be at least 5 seconds long. I made the assets in flash a while back for a specific scene in a short that is still a work in progress. It turned out pretty good concidering I didn't think I'd make him move like this when I built him.

Facial animation: head turn

This assignmet was to focus on turning the head of a character in reaction to something. I focused on the animation of the small robot, and added the guy later, I can see now that it degraded the whole thing. I also experimented with making the two animations separate, and reference them into to the scene at the end which did not work well, so I will probably not use that approach again.