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Short Film: Head Over Heels by Frank Abney

Hi friends, For February month AM had released the newsletter and in this they have shared the short film done by frank. It was really good from the project planning to final render, they have asked questions about his project head over heels and he replies for it. Very useful to start the short film like this. Animation Mentor Newsletter - February 2011 Head over heels

Acting for Animation-[Task1] Ref: How to Use Crutches

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Sports Medicine Information : How to Use Crutches Properly It shows how to use these crutches when people got injured. I took some references for my acting session as I mentioned in my concept that it was a sports person... He/she will strong enough to do this. here Tove Kane learns how to use crutches after a recent operation on her knee. Who knew stairs could be so tricky? Thanks to Rhiley's encouraging, and understanding the centre of gravity, Tové gets the hang of crutch confidence in a flash!

Acting for Animation-[Task1] Motivation video

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This man is very inspiring...This guy has all the positive energy in the world to have such a sense of humour like that and being able to love himself. We have all the things in hand but we look for better. He should be happy forever..

Acting for Animation-[Task1] Character &Obstacle concept

Info: After thinking for a long time, I came up within an idea like character with crutches. Concept idea: Giving up is easy especially when one has very little hope of anything positive happening. The following anecdote is an expression of the belief to never lose hope that anything good will happen. My character will stood at the top of the staircase thinking how difficult it is going to be go down. As he tries slowly to get the crutches to help him, he cannot help but notice the medals and trophies adorning the shelves along the staircase. With each step down, he thinks of the glorious times he lived in, the fame he achieved as an athlete and the success he enjoyed at the various games. His thoughts are fully engrossed in a particularly exciting match which his team won, without paying attention to the steps. As he exhales in joy while recollecting the winning moment, suddenly he finds himself spiralling down the wooden staircase. He had missed a step and was now lying ver

Acting for Animation

This module is fully based on acting performances using animated characters. From the previous modules I learnt the basic principles of animation. Now into depth of acting sequence will be followed.Here scripted acting techniques were applied. These are the 3 task which I am going to do, Task1: Character walking in stairs Task2: The Art of the Mime Task3: Two Characters in a Dialogue Piece.

Animation Practice 2: Presenter

Here it's the full length video of the presenter. After blocking stage I had worked on inbetween poses and passes. From my friends suggestions and my tutor comments I have worked and made corrections in lipsyn. However, I couldn't match fully somewhat I have done here in the action part. Here character will be walking to small distance and he will be talking to the audience with personality. I have moved eye contact with camera angle but it slightly goes off. Russel peter original video reference helped me a lot in this assignment. He was speaking too fast in the audio and made nice poses. Final Render part:

Animation practice 2 [Task Presenter] Blocking stage

After choosing the rig, I move forward with the blocking stage of Russell peter action and here it is..