How to Train Your 'Acting Choice'

Acting choice.. IS SO DIFFICULT!!!
do check the comparison below.


The Final Version:
just finished it few days ago, change the entire acting choice of the guy, as well as continue polishing for both characters.

V.S.

Second Version:
that I posted this few weeks ago, I still feel the acting of the guy is weird.. so weird..

V.S.

The First Version:
Haah this was actually the first version I did in class.. the context, story, character design are totally different. but.. instructor like it.. ?!! It's such a pain to work on this..

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Anyway, let me know which u think is better &

Most important is, as the title mentioned, how to train our acting choice as an animator..? How do we judge the good or bad acting choice, or weird acting choice..?

Alright, I got to watch How to Train Your Dragon this weekend. I MUST WATCH!!!

More, more, more coffee please...!!

A lip sync short that I did at Linda Bel's class last semester.
Animation, Norman Modify, Lighting, rendering were done by me.

I want to get an internship this semester!! huh..~~

Let me know if you guys like this, hate this, or any suggestions & comments are truly appreciated..! yeah XD

The 100 frames Challenge

A animation challenge within 100 frames I did from JD's SOS workshop last semester.
A little girl has been chased & terrified. Will her hero, the Batman come to safe her?

Animation, Norman Modify, Lighting, Rendering were done by me.

Birthday

This clip is so special because..
The first animation I've done in 2010,

The '90% finished' animation I'd ever done during the school break..

A short animation for my dearest friend's birthday present.

Hope YOU like it. =)



notes:

Rigs modified from Norman Rig, Animation, Lighting, Rendering by me.
music by Chopin's Waltz Op.64 No.3 in A flat major

Billions Thanks, & It's END of 2009...

Good Friends..
that brought me unforgettable memory..

Thanks everyone who celebrate birthday with me.. Thanks Thanks Thanks!
You guys are so awesome!

Thanks God for the 1 & half years guidance & leading in faith & study life in US..
May what I doing & achieving is glorifying Him but not myself.. >.< style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >BYE 2009
&

Hi 2010 =)

Early Christmas Wishing: Prep & Landing

Due to the final of this semester... I guess I would have no time to update my blog until this Christmas over... (& by then I'm already at home enjoying mum's cooking~ home sweet home~!)

simple yet touching story, awesome animation, beautiful design, great humors.. I think this is really well done for TV animation~!!
(ofcoz, it's by Disney studio..~)

Yeah~ Hope you guys enjoy this & wish u an early...

MERRY CHRISTSMAS!!!!

yeah, back to work >.<

Another youtube link but there's only Part 1 the first half http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crr3TfyM-m0

Week 03: You Know What Some of the Kids Said? More about Layout

Before we get into Animation, I would like to expand a little about LAYOUT from Week 02. =)

It all start with the 12 Principles of Animation: Staging

We don't simply layout-ing, putting camera around if we know how important staging is.
If we study animation featured, we noticed how every single shots has been designed, layout nicely.

& how's my friend, Jin Liang think about layout design, do check out one of his post: Lady & The Tramp & I'm totally agree with him.

The Basic idea of Staging

We can see how everything should be organized nicely because everything appear within the frame tells the story. Good staging lead audience into the right mood of your story, it make your audience focus on your story. & Yea, it's all about story.


What we can expand from Staging is Composition,

& what we can learn from Composition is the Rule of Thirds.


This is how's the great master piece painted during Renaissance, good photography nowadays, they all followed the Rule of Thirds.

Let's take my shots for an example..




& now you can really see how I can improve my composition.


The third thing you may need to consider is Leading the Audience's Eye.

Spungella on July 2009 has great post of this topic.

The basic idea is to create an area of focus from shots to shots.
The focus area could be the position of your character, the direction of your character looking, the props that pointing to specific direction & etc.

For my shots,

shot 1 & the direction of little girl looking.

when we put shot 1 & 2 together, we can see the direction of 2 characters looking.

shot 2 & the direction of batman looking.

when we put shot 2 & 3 together, we can see the direction of 2 characters looking.

shot 3 & the direction of both of them looking.

By applying this, it would spice up your shots, & this is how you differentiate a good or bad shots.

& So here's my improved layout,

Oh yeah, what do you think? what do you think about this layout? what do you think about this piece of sharing & infomation?

feedback guys! comments!

Hope you like it.

Have Fun =)