This week Friendred gave me some feedback on the animation I did last week. It also can be check in my last week work progress diary. He suggested me to adjust the pose of moving the brush (pencil for now) up and down to back and forth. But it’s quite interesting because when I filming the video reference, I initially think the way of make up is back and forth. So, after I finished filming and checked it with my teammate Zhuxuan Zhang. She told me that kind of thinking is wrong. And the correct gesture is up and down. Otherwise, the wrong gesture will break up the powder in reality.
I think it’s important to refer to the reality rather than imagination. Because I, as an animator am unfamiliar with the make up stuff. If I don’t find a correct reference for my pose or ask the person who familiar with that, I won’t have the knowledge of how to animate it correctly. Therefore, I will pay more attention to this and find enough reference for filming the video reference in the later animation.
Work for this week, I recorded all the reference of the rest of the animation I need to animate according to the storyboards. In that way, I will get the idea of what timing and staging of my animation should probably be. This storyboard need to be designed into a scene of Mom and Dad putting dishes onto the table. For the reference, I filmed a few clips to find out the right way to put the dishes while showing the feeling of weight. So, I put some real food on the plate in order to create the sense of weight. Also, I’m trying to keep my pose to be more natural and relax.
I got feedback by Kaiwen to zoom in the camera to get closer to the table.
So, I adjusted the camera and the position of the plates. Also, I adjusted the timing of putting hand back. After discussed with Kaiwen, I decided to add a act of putting down the plate for the hands on left. I want to avoid putting the plates in the middle of the scene. Basically, I followed the Rule of thirds to locate the place of the plates. Then the animation goes to this:
Kaiwen suggests me to slow down the speed of the left hands. So, I slowed down the animation of them by 5 frames. The result is acceptable for me.
Then I still feel the speed is quite fast. So, I slowed down the whole animation for 10% and get the final result for this stage.