Moving onto the lip-Syncing and sound with the block outs, I got my most recent feedback from my lecturers Mike and Sarah on what area of my animation I should work more on before next week’s class. First taking notes for Character B as they only stand and make so little movements taken from the animatic as I took more time on A more so than B, luckily I had the time I needed to work on them before Lip Syncing. I knew I needed more anticipation to Character B as I quickly went to recap myself with the animation principle beforehand, then researched other ways on how a person or their body on reflex would react to something smashed and broken, filled with fear and being startled. I found a couple of clips on how the person would react to the other as they shield themselves with their hands up, covering themselves for protection and take a few steps back with routeing their upper torso to protect their vision and face.
After adding in the block outs and a couple of rough sequences of the bodies movements to Character B’s arms and legs for secondary action and follow through moving onto adding in the lip syncs while following and writing out the script. I then drew out the mouth actions following each letter of each word, put all together to have myself a blueprint of the script itself and to put into the animation sequence matching with the audio watching my time and spacing to sync the body movements especially the head rotations. I used the resources from Blackboard from our lecturers which was extremely helpful for me to use for Character A as the only one who speaks in the sequence and I thought there was a better improvement to previous projects I have done. It was very helpful to aid the characters acting with only Character A speaking and having more frames/movements in comparison to Character B to make them more fluid.
