Character Animation 2: Pantomime Project (1)

This month, I have Character Animation 2 as one of my classes. In this class, we are being taught how to make a character change from one emotion to another based on events that happen in the scene. We will also be learning how to create lip syncing for the characters with voice audio's applied to them, but we will won't move onto that until we reach Project 2: Lip Syncing.

Below I have attached a progress video of the Pantomime project that I am currently working on. All that I have completed so far is the blocking out of the keys in this video. From here, I will carry out my break downs, anticipations, and moving holds to make the movement more fluid and believable for the audience to understand what is really going on.

The Back Story: The character is female, in her early 20's, living a normal-average life. She is currently struggling for money, living alone away from her home state, and working extremely hard to land her dream career, but it is taking some while for her to reach that goal. In the meantime, she has a boyfriend who is a United States Marine, whom of which she can only speak to through letters and she does not receive letters from him often. The letters are on the biggest highlights of her day, as she is always worried and thinking about her Marine.