Scary Talking Floating Head.Lip Sync Animation Practice With Good Ol Dr. Ziegler. Still A Wip But Whatever,

Scary talking floating head. Lip Sync animation practice with good ol’ Dr. Ziegler. Still a Wip but whatever, I haven’t posted in weeks.

Outstanding work. It’s always a marvel to see animation being flipped.

Building a Scene: It’s over isn’t it?

For Pearl’s song “It’s Over isn’t it?” the scene is about Pearl accepting a loss. As the series has progressed, she’s learned that she isn’t always right, and that there are things about herself that she’s has to reevaluate. This all comes to a sort of climax in this scene where she accepts and admits out loud that her relationship with Rose was never as deep and complete as she wanted it to be or told herself it was. This is where she’s left at the end of the scene, feeling lost and out of place.

In the outline written by Ben Levine and Matt Burnett, this is how the scene looked:

You’ll notice a lot of things ended up changing compared to the final version. Most of that was due to time constraints. When we started storyboarding the episode, all of the rough demos of the songs were recorded so that we had an idea of the amount of time we had between each song (which ended up not being very much). The result was that we had to basically be transitioning constantly between songs, but doing it in a way that felt natural and as gentle as possible.

In addition, Rebecca remembered a part from the 1982 movie “Victor Victoria” starring Julie Andrews that she wanted to use as reference for the feeling of the scene:

Right away we latched onto this spinning 360 degree camera move. I loved the energy and focus it gave to the character and I immediately roughed out a version with Pearl.

If you’re ever stuck during a scene this is what you do: Don’t start from the beginning, find the moment you see clearest in your mind and build out from there. From these rough thumbnails I built the rest of the scene outward. I brought back motifs like her sword skills and her dance style to help evoke the past events of the series, and I tried to give as much time as I could to each shot and make her acting as expressive a possible.

Below are my rough boards set to Rebecca’s demo. At the end, i added a pause for when she throws the Rose into the air. It felt like a good spot for things to crescendo ring out. Deedee Magno Hall’s rendering of this blew us all away when we heard it.

From there clean up was pretty much straight forward. The scene didn’t change much except for tweaking her acting here and there. I’m super proud of how this scene turned out, hats off to Nick DeMayo our animation director and to the team at Sunimin in Korea where they draw the entire episode on paper:

Hey guys, some things have come up and I won’t be able to make my first tuition payment that I budgeted for

It’s my Senior Year

I’ve already had to take 2 Leaves of Absences already due to financial situations - I really don’t want to (and can’t afford to - in fact I’m not even sure if I’m allowed to) take another Leave

I’m just so CLOSE that it really hurts to have to stop my progress again if you can’t donate, please reblog - I would be extremely grateful for both

I will definitely share any progress (both for the fundraiser and schoolwork-wise) because I’d love to show what you’re helping me to do

And if I reach my goal (even if it’s my much smaller goal for just this month) I’d like to make something to say “Thank You” - it’d probably be some kind of teaser for my Senior Film :)

Next day reblurb

I have this idea for a short animation and I started exploring a bit of the possible MC. For now she is called Kiki, cus she will KIKI YOUR ASS. Animating wrinkles in fabric is really tiring and it just jittery and inconsistent. Need to practice that more.

Nintoaster Switch. I’d buy it.

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