Just search some highlights of animation about toy story 3.
I want to learn some exaggerated body language from that two clips.
Clips 1.
That was amazing dancing performance. Even this shot only spend 53s, but there has a lot of actions and very complicated.I am really like the hip swing when Buzz dancing, the detail make the character with more personality. In this clips, Buzz want fall in love with the girl, so he show more of his excitement when he dancing for girl. The timing was being good controlled in this clips.
Clips 2.
This is a period of pas de deux. Finally, the girl accepted the love from Buzz. So, this dance is very cheerful and passion. The action and movement also difficult and complicated. It's hard to make the two people dancing like this period.
I clip the performance of Mime before i do the Mime animation. Because the time of animation should limited in 30 seconds. Besides, make sure the audience could understand what going on in scene. I divided into three steps.
Step1: A man is walking dog in the park with good mood. He love his dog so much. The dog was a naughty dog, he always pull master go anywhere. The dog stopped and have a rest after walking tired. Then the man squatted and caressing the dog's body.
Step2: The dog was guided by a man to go to the direction of the right hand side. But the dog motionless no matter the man how to pulling leash.
Step3: Suddenly，the dog start to move, running in the opposite direction. The man grabbed the leash to stop dog run. After a tough pull, the man was pulled outside of the shots by dog.
The blocking of Mime animation
This is the
blocking of Mime animation. In the process of production, I use a moving box
instead dog in the scene. It's easy to do animation and be a reference. There can be more convenient and intuitive. Through the blocking, I need to improve in some places.
Need improve:
1. This man walking too stiff and too mechanical.
2. The man need more reflection when dog pulling leash.
3. Some
actions should be more exaggerated.
The breakdown of Mime animation
This is the breakdown of Mime animation. I was change a lot of details after tutorial. The walking looks nature and adds more reflections between man and dog; however, i changed some normal poses be more exaggerated. For example, the man pulled leash very hard in the ending of animation. Although the breakdown looks better than last time, but also need change a lot be better.
Need improve:
1. The walking should be more nature and relax, especially the movement of feet and legs.
2. Delay the thinking time before squatting. 3. Keeping the center of gravity when he cornering. 4. Pay more attention in hands movement, especially fingers. 5. The hand raised too high, should put hands lower to match the dog size.
The final Mime animation
This is the final render animation. I adjusted the lighting and material for this mime animation. I want the movement of the man looks more real with performative. So i made the background be a small theatre. I am try to change some problems from breakdown, and now here presented the final effect. I hope tutor and friends could give me some feedbacks to make this mime be more perfect.
Before I start do a Mime animation, I need
to practice the real mime to feel the movement of the body language. In the beginning,
i need select a topic to prepare mime animation in this exercise; therefore, i am
going to practice ‘walking a dog’ mime be the reference before I do the
animation. So, I search some mime shows about walking dog from YouTube, and try
to learn some professional postures.
This is mime practice recording in green
screen studio. The animation exercise required limited in 25-30 seconds. So, I
tried to control the timing limited in 30 seconds and make sure let audience
understand my performance. The character designed a young man whose
age about in 25-30. He is a funny guy and humorous. He will walk a dog from the
left scene into middle scene. The dog designed a middle size dog with naughty temper. Thus,
the story begins and the various possible occurred between man and dog.
This Mime show presented a story about two persons. The man interested in rover lady who was a drugster. They are fighting each other though mime language. That's interesting and funny idea to abstract audience.
Ze Parachute
I really love his show. That was so exaggerated performance with facial expression and body language. He played a super singer star who is really amazing.
Balloon mime
This mime artist showed audience a real balloon physics. It's so clear to let audience know the relative between man with balloon. While the balloon was light, or heavy can not move.
Walking a dog
Mimo chistoso
There are two mime shows presented audience the state of waling dog. The dog was imagined by artist. The whole show like a little story. Especially the first show, a lady walking dog in the park with good shot angle.
The second show also perfect and match the good sound from artist. I will do a new practice like walking dog.
