AM 502 - Facial Animation, 2nd Pass

Not too much to discuss here, just a second pass on the facial animation after receiving some notes.

AM 502 - Facial Animation, 2nd Pass from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

We also worked on a few face pose tests (still imagery):

501 - Facial Animation Blocking

Here's the first pass on the facial animation for my dialogue shot. We really got into understanding the sounds and mouth shapes that happen when you speak.

AM 501 - Facial Animation Blocking from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

Some of my old reference for this clip with a couple of new tests:

AM 501 - Facial Reference from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

Planning drawings for the lip sync and facial expressions:

Class 5 - Advanced Acting

It's been tough updating on account of a ton of life changing events occurring over the past several weeks.

Long story short: I'm leaving my day job to focus on animation and training full time. We'll see what happens, but it should be an interesting year ahead!

A few weeks back I started my 5th class at Animation Mentor - Advanced Acting. my mentor for this term is Ethan Hurd who I have heard nothing but great things about! So far I would say they're all very accurate. He's proving to be very knowledgeable with great critiques and a great personality!

Check out some of his work experience or his blog.

Animation Progress Reel - September 2009

My current progress reel for my work at Animation Mentor (classes 1-4).

Animation Progress Reel - September 2009 from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

You can download or stream a quicktime version as well.

The Dialogue shot was animated with minimal facial controls and we will be doing full facial animation on it next term.

AM 411 - Dialogue "Final"

AM 411 - Dialogue Shot "Final" from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

Here is my "final" pass for my dialogue shot test. It's always hard to believe, but another class has flown by already! In our next class we will be taking this shot and working on facial animation for it. Fortunately, this thing has been a ton of fun to work on and I think the facial animation is going to be even more fun!

Time to rest and enjoy a weekend off for once! =D

AM 410 - Dialogue Polishing

AM 410 - Dialogue Refinement from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

I moved into the nitty-gritty polish phase this past week. I also changed the lame hand and how he was posturing it thanks to some good suggestions from a classmate (thanks Jeff!).

One more week left to super polish everything. I know there are a few spots where I want to tweak the timing and the arcs.

AM 409 - Dialogue Refinement

Not too much to discuss this week. I've moved out of my blocking stages for my dialogue shot and have begun to refine the actions and ideas.