16/1/13 - Fight or Flight part 5, practice

Continuing from yesterday today is mainly about collecting a little more reference footage and getting some more storyboards done.

Today's reference footage went a lot better, a lot more focused and the performances show that. Here's some stills.

1.1: (Likert Scale 2: Yelling)

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2. (Likert scale 6: Run) Initial reaction

3. (Likert scale 2: Yelling)

The walk cycle from yesterday is finished enough for me to begin doing proper tests as soon as I've got the storyboards done.

I've spent some time sorting through my posts and labelling them ready for submission today so I haven't got round to making any more storyboards.



Personal development
Over the past semester when I've had a moment spare or needed a rest from the rest of my coursework I've been brushing up on my drawing skills. Here's an assortment of those practice sketches.

The first collection is when i was trying to improve on drawing faces, specifically facial expressions. When storyboarding it makes my life a lot easier if I can record the facial expression i first thought of and so being able to draw them well is a necessary skill. Below you can see an assortment of facial poses in Maya using photos as reference  practices of drawing expressive eyes, figuring out the structure of the lips and practices in the proportion of faces both realistic and stylized.

This collection of hands I started last night after yesterdays post highlighted how badly I needed to improve. I haven't left any images out so that i can see where i'm going wrong more clearly. I'm going wrong a lot for now.