Steampunk Sapper - Trigger man
polycounter lvl 8
Wanted to play around with a few things in this anim. First was using a static image for a background while still having camera moves. Achieved this by building a proxy env based off pedestrians as a scale, then figuring out a somewhat close focal length and position of the camera based off the perspective of the image. To get camera moves, I parented a second camera under the aligned camera and only did rotation and focal changes to keep the perspective lines. It's called a 'nodal move' in film, dunno if there's a more official title.
The other aspect was conveying personality as quickly and minimally as possible. So for the Sapper, making him feel rather indifferent to what he's done. Had a lot of fun animating the little cover that pops open of all things. Sapper was keyframed straight ahead without ref.
For the rest: grey guy was mocap, explosion was an animated card, debris is from a script of mine, and I added some crossing semi tranparent cloud planes between the camera and the characters to push the depth a bit more.
Rig available here