This week while continuing to smooth out my body mechanic animations, I started looking towards the other element of my final showreel: Lipsync animation. Deciding what audio clips to use became the more difficult part of the process, simply because with such a large variety to choose from, taking a clip then altering in any particular way comedic or otherwise left me spoilt for choice.
After mass amounts of deliberation I went with choosing two audio clips, one I would only animate the face of a rig, the other a full body animation complete with body language.
For the facial rig animation, I have decided to use an excerpt from the 2008 Sherlock Movie, where Sherlock Holmes attempts to calm a startled house maid:
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/trustProfessional.wav
From the outset I aim to match the smoothness of his voice with an equally calm faced character, hoping to see how much charisma I can display with only a head.
Choosing an audio clip for the full body lipsync was difficult simply because of the possibilities I could work with, not too mention that some clips were deceptively long, which would see my priorities shift from a decent work plan. So I altered my choice selection in favour for some clips are maximum 13 seconds, so as to finish with two strong animations with condensed quality, rather than animations that aren't completely finished to respectable quality due to lack of time.
Here are a selection of choices that I'm looking at, by weeks end I will have my choices along with storyboards for the lipsync animations ready for me to start video referencing and blocking out.
The Big Bang Theory - Leonard Hofstadter
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/supervillain.wav
The Incredibles - Syndrome
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/everyonewillbe.wav
The Dark Knight - The Joker
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/heresmycard.wav
The Dark Knight - The Joker
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/myjokes.wav
Monsters University - Sully
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/grabpig.wav
Spiderman - Peter Parker
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/oneswhopay_0.wav
For the time being, I will make mind maps and quick storyboards so as to cement ideas for each scene which will help me decide which dialogue piece I use.
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